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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 1569284, member: 2844&quot;]It is exactly the same style as Goan ivory crucifixes, so if you got it in Asia, Indo-Portuguese is an option.</p><p>Philppines (Spanish) could be too, depending on where you found it.</p><p>If you got it in Europe, I would look towards Spain and Portugal.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for Dutch, remember, during much of the VOC-period Catholics in the Netherlands were persecuted and often murdered for their faith. They had secret churches, and their statues were much more Baroque that this one. Think Rubens style.</p><p>The VOC only tolerated &#039;Portuguese&#039; Catholics in the East Indies. That was simply because they weren&#039;t Dutch or German, and they were already there.</p><p>So any crucifixes made in the Dutch East Indies during that period would have no Dutch influence at all.</p><p>Dutch Catholics only got total freedom of religion in 1848, decades after the VOC period.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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