Sitting with crossed legs, a chubby Chinese man is depicted wearing a white gown adorned with a floral pattern and a gold-decorated lace collar. He wears sea green slippers and a purple belt. The hands, head, and tongue are movable. The polychrome painting is embellished with gold accents. It is possibly the work of Johann Joachim Kaendler, with small firing cracks and a sword mark. It measures 31 cm in height. The so-called "Wackelpagoden" (nodding pagodas) are based on designs from 1762, when Frederick II of Prussia commissioned "10 bajodens with nodding heads". The five female and five male figures were installed as part of the interior design of the Chinese House in Sanssouci after the end of the Seven Years' War. See catalog of the Royal Saxon Porcelain Manufactory, 1904, page 27; Rückert, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, number 1027; Pietsch, Triumph, page 144. A large porcelain figure of a pagoda nodder. It has small firing cracks and is marked with crossed swords. Made in Meissen, second half of the 19th century.