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Figure of Hotei
Made by: Chantilly Manufactory (France)
French
about 1745
Medium/Technique
Porcelain; colored enamels; bronze gilded mount
Dimensions
Height: 30.5 cm (12 in.)
Credit Line
Kiyi and Edward M. Pflueger Collection. Bequest of Edward M. Pflueger and Gift of Kiyi Powers Pflueger
Accession Number2006.894
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
DescriptionOrmolu-mounted. Forming a brûle-parfum, with nodding head and perforated body, seated on his bag of laughter, his hands on his knees and his head entirely bald, decorated in the Kakiemon palette with flower sprays skillfully enclosing the perforations, with ormolu collar and gadrooned base, on four bud feet.
ProvenanceBy 1931, Madame Gautier-Vignal Middleton; by 1972, Mr. and Mrs. Deane Johnson, Bel Air, CA; sold, Johnson sale, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, NY (December 9, 1972), lot 3 ($20,000); purchased by Antique Porcelain Company of New York, Inc., for Edward M. Pflueger, NY;