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A Chinese woman, or rather a Chinese woman in a white garment with Indian flower patterns, sits with crossed legs. She is wearing a girded robe with a gold-trimmed, ornamented lace collar and yellow or pink embroidered slippers. Her hands, head, and tongue are movable. The polychrome painting is embellished with gold. Possibly by Johann Joachim Kaendler, but uncertain; sword mark. Height: 29 cm - 33 cm. The preference for Chinese art is evident in the Meissen manufactory, especially in the extraordinary porcelain figures of the sitting Chinese. The so-called nodding pagodas can be traced back to designs from 1762, when Frederick II of Prussia ordered "10 pagodas with nodding heads". The five female and five male figures were placed in the interior of the Chinese House at Sanssouci at the end of the Seven Years' War. See Catalogue of the Royal Saxon Porcelain Manufactory, 1904, p. 27, no. 2883 and 2884; Catalogue Rücker, Bayer. Nationalmuseum, no. 1027, Pietzsch, Catalogue Triumph of the Blue Swords, p. 144. A pair of large porcelain figures of a female and a male pagoda nodders. Partly hairline crack. Minor chipped/restored. Crossed swords mark. Meissen. 1st half of the 19th century.