This is an example of works by the Chinese "face-makers", who delighted the 18th Century European merchants and officers of the East-India Companies during their short residence at Canton. The most famous Chinese modeller known to Westerners as Chitqua came to England in 1769, where he produced busts in clay in a "...very striking likeness with great expectation". Only one work definitely executed by the master during his stay (until 1771) - the figure of Dr. Anthony Askew - is now in the collection of the Royal College of Physicians in London. One of the earliest examples is in the Peabody Museum, Salem, U.S.A.. Another group brought from Canton in 1732 are in the Danish Royal Art Collection (Kongens Kunstkamner), Museum of Trade and Navigation at Kronborg in Denmark and in a private collection. Later figures are known in Rijksmuseum, Nederlands Scheepvaart Museum (both in Amsterdam) and the National Portrait Gallery, London