A MEISSEN ARTICULATED FIGURE OF A SEATED PAGODA, the grinning figure with 'nodding' head, hands and tongue, wearing a lilac-lined flowered white robe open to reveal a yellow tunic with a gilt trellis-pattern over his corpulent belly, with a frilled collar and pink shoes, blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummer 73, incised 156., circa 1880 | Christie's

Lot 514

514

A MEISSEN ARTICULATED FIGURE OF A SEATED PAGODA, the grinning figure with 'nodding' head, hands and tongue, wearing a lilac-lined flowered white robe open to reveal a yellow tunic with a gilt trellis-pattern over his corpulent belly, with a frilled collar and pink shoes, blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummer 73, incised 156., circa 1880

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A MEISSEN ARTICULATED FIGURE OF A SEATED PAGODA, the grinning figure with 'nodding' head, hands and tongue, wearing a lilac-lined flowered white robe open to reveal a yellow tunic with a gilt trellis-pattern over his corpulent belly, with a frilled collar and pink shoes, blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummer 73, incised 156., circa 1880
7¼in. (18.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. Dr. K. Berling, (Ed.), op. cit., p. 12, Fig. 1 for an original 18th Century model. See also Rainer Rückert, op. cit., pl. 1027 for an example of circa 1762

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