Bisque porcelain scent bottles depicting a couple of magots

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Scent bottles featuring a couple of bisque porcelain funny chaps called Magots: the head, attached to a cork, is the stopper. The tongue goes in and out.This character was reproduced around 1930 in Germany They represent the popular Buddhist god of good fortune or contentment, known as Budai (Put’ai) in China and Ho-teiin Japan. These figurines, sometimes with movable heads or tongues, were popular in Europe as decorative items, particularly in chinoiserie-style interiors
Period
18th century

Country

Germany (?), 18th Ct.

Material

porcelain

Size

5,5 cm

COD.

56

Labels

antique scent bottles

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