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A kraamkamer (birth-room). Watercolour, 16--. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
One of the women is handing round sweetmeets, a custom which still exists in the Netherlands to mark the baptism of a baby: today the sweetmeats are "beschuit met muisjes" (rusk with mouse, the mouse being aniseed with a sweet coating, pink for a girl and blue for a boy). The women are the "gossips", i.e. Godsiblings or god-parents, who support the parents and the child
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