A MEISSEN ARTICULATED FIGURE OF A SEATED PAGODA with a 'nodding' head and hands, the corpulent grinning figure with her hair tied in a top-knot, wearing a lace collar, a lilac-lined white robe painted with indianische Blumen, seated cross-legged and wearing blue shoes (large chips to neck and collar, slight wear to paint and gilding), blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummern 93 and 125, incised 154, circa 1880

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A MEISSEN ARTICULATED FIGURE OF A SEATED PAGODA with a 'nodding' head and hands, the corpulent grinning figure with her hair tied in a top-knot, wearing a lace collar, a lilac-lined white robe painted with indianische Blumen, seated cross-legged and wearing blue shoes (large chips to neck and collar, slight wear to paint and gilding), blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummern 93 and 125, incised 154, circa 1880
6in. (15cm.) high

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Cf. Dr. K. Berling, (ed.), Meissen China, An Illustrated History, p. 12, fig. 1, for a similar example of the 18th Century

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