Cleveland Museum of Art
Figure of Budai or Hotei with Jar
Chantilly Porcelain FactoryLinkedCulture matchlcp-12da545d8d9b
- Date
- c. 1735–40
- Medium
- Tin-glazed soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration
- Culture
- France, Chantilly
- Department
- Decorative Art and Design
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 125723
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A smiling figure in traditional robes sits beside a decorative ceramic container.
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From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The production of decorative figures like this one, referred to as magots or pagodes in European texts, was the result of an 18th-century European interest in Chinese and Japanese culture and porcelain. Budai, pronounced Hotei in Japanese, was a semilegendary Chinese monk known in Japan through the transmission of Chan Bhuddism. This figure’s decoration with multicolor overglaze enamels on a milky-white is typical of Japanese Kakiemon style. In 1735, the Chantilly factory was given a 25-year royal privilege for the manufacture of objects that imitated Japanese porcelain.
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- Grace Rainey Rogers Fund
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