Museal Artifact – Nephrite Jade Diagnostic Doctor Doll CHINA Qing Period (ca 18th C) Vintage Antique handcarved medical statue Light green nephrite jade depicting a nude lying lady Specifications Size: 132 x 42 x 19 mm Comes from a private collection With documentation + invoice from Rockefeller Auction Center on 5th Avenue in New York Excellent condition – has been on glass display Information on Chinese medical doll statues : Chinese diagnostic doctor dolls mostly depict a reclining woman, usually naked. Though most dolls were carved out of ivory, they could also be sculpted of jade, amber, bronze, wood, or even lapis lazuli. Howard Dittrick notes the dolls all strike the same pose: propped up on the left arm, with the other draped across the body. Carvers did distinguish adult women, with hair tied up in a bun, from girls with braids or twin ponytails. In the final centuries of China’s Qing Dynasty, these intricately carved medicine dolls were an ailing woman’s only option, writes medical historian Howard Dittrick in his 1952 paper in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, “Chinese Medicine Dolls.” From the 1300s to the late 19th century, China’s Ming and Qing Dynasties had ushered in a cult of chastity that made it impossible for a doctor to physically examine a female patient, or for her to undress before him. And at the time, China only allowed men to be doctors. | Het werk wordt rechtstreeks door de aanbieder opgestuurd: + € 24 verzendingskosten + € 50 verzekeringskosten