Figure of Budai or Hotei with Jar

c. 1735–40 Overall: 17.2 cm (6 3/4 in.) Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/1947.62

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 know...

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