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Scent bottles representing a couple of Maggots in biscuit porcelain
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.
The word magot comes from the French: bertuccia. They are male or female figures with oriental features. Usually the material used for the representation was painted or decorated porcelain. The subject depicted, in a good-natured and friendly way, is Pu-Tai. The Chinese god of happiness and abundance. They arrived in Europe between the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth century thanks to the first connections between European merchants (Venetian first and foremost) and Chinese. In the following decades, they became a status symbol to be displayed in aristocratic homes.
Material: porcelain
Size: 6 cm
Country: Germany
Year: 18th Century