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Figure of Budai or Hotei with Jar

c. 1735–40
manufacturer

Chantilly Porcelain Factory

(French)
France, Chantilly, 18th century
Tin-glazed soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration
Overall: 17.2 cm (6 3/4 in.)
Grace Rainey Rogers Fund 1947.62
Location: 216A French and German

Did You Know?

In 1735, the Chantilly factory was given a 25-year royal privilege for the manufacture of objects that imitated Japanese porcelain.

Description

The production of decorative figures like this one, referred to as magots or pagodes in European texts, was the result of an 18th-century European interest in Chinese and Japanese culture and porcelain. Budai, pronounced Hotei in Japanese, was a semilegendary Chinese monk known in Japan through the transmission of Chan Bhuddism. This figure’s decoration with multicolor overglaze enamels on a milky-white is typical of Japanese Kakiemon style.
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