Featured Where is this lady from?

I'm sure this majolica tobacco jar or humidor is either German or Austrian. Any ideas on what region or country her costume/head covering is supposed to represent?

Thanks so much!

 

Maybe Greek, Turkish, or Middle Eastern? I get that vibe from the earrings.

 

@Any Jewelry

 

This might be archived or cached somewhere with a description and maybe pictures of a maker's mark. For me, using phone for internet there are a lot of things I can't access. The link takes me to the whack-a-mole, repetitive pop-up Pinterest site.

 

About the costume only, not about the country of manufacture: If those things on her head are flowers, I would guess Bulgaria or thereabouts. Bulgaria also has extravagant coin jewellery, including long earrings.

 

Y'all are fantastic! Thank you so much!

 

I suspect it's meant to be Orientalist rather than of one particular culture.

Debora

 

She's blonde, tho'.

 

White slavery. Harems. Millions of Europeans were kidnapped and taken to the Muslim world as slaves. It went on for centuries.

 

A bit exaggerated on the numbers and timespan.

And the "Muslim World" isn't Oriental.

 

Centuries isn't an exaggeration. It took Spain 8 centuries to get rid of the monsters. Ireland, England, Scotland, all along Europe white Christians were kidnapped and shipped to North Africa and Saudi Barbaria. Millions and millions of them. It's historically accurate.

 

That lovely bit of hyperbole and Islamophobia, mixed with inaccuracy, means you join my Ignore list.

It also displays a depth of ignorance about Moorish Spain.

 

You can throw around all the -phobia words or even -ist or -ism words you like. It doesn't change historical events.

I've noticed over the years I've been coming in contact with these type of works, that a lot of Austrian artists and sculptors and porcelain makers liked to romanticize the sexual slave markets of Islam. I don't know why.

 

The 'monsters' had a civilisation that could teach ours a thing or two.
Moorish Spain was important for European philosophy, science, and arts. And it was far more tolerant than Reconquista Spain, which is why nearly all Sephardic Jewish people were forced to leave Spain after the 'monsters' had left.
Thank God there were other states ready to welcome the Sephardim, including Venice, The Netherlands, and..... Islamic Turkey.

And don't get me started on slavery in and by the Western world.

 

Just an example of the legacy of Moorish Spain, used by European scholars and academics from the Middle Ages up til this day:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Averroes

In denying the value of Spanish Moorish civilisation you come very close to denying the roots of our knowledge today.
It is thanks to scholars throughout the Islamic world that we know Greek philosophy, for instance. They preserved and studied it at a time when Europe had forgotten all about it.

 

It was the Catholic Church who burned and murdered Sephardi, regardless of whether they'd converted.

 

And this is how Andalusia was, before the Inquisition:

http://www.ajbasweb.com/old/ajbas/2013/March/323-327.pdf