Fine Pottery & Porcelain - 21st February 2023

Lot 626

A small German porcelain pagoda figure

Estimate £350 - £450

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Description

A small German porcelain pagoda figure, 19th century, after Meissen, depicting a bare-chested monk loosely draped in robes and formed as a censer with a hole in the top of his head and a small spout between his teeth, 8.8cm.

Cf. Sammlung Margarete und Franz Oppenheimer, Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld for a collection of similar Meissen pagoda figures.