A SITZENDORF ARTICULATED FIGURE OF A CORPULENT MANDARIN with 'nodding' head, tongue and hands, seated cross-legged wearing a white and gilt collar, lilac-lined flowered robe with iron-red cuffs and a claret sash, and yellow shoes (pig-tail and right thumb lacking, chip to tongue and to back of collar, slight wear to gilding), blue crossed mark, circa 1900