Scent Container with Figure of Budai Heshang

1745-1749

35.2 cm 34.5 cm 20.3 cm

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This is an example of the 18th-century craze for “Chinoiserie:” objects and decorative schemes created in what was understood to be a Chinese style, or in combination with Asian imports, for instance ceramics or lacquer. Here Chinese porcelains, a figure of folkloric deity Bud...

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Henry Walters, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sadie Jones (Mrs. Henry Walters), New York, 1931, by inheritance; Joseph Brummer, New York [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1941, by purchase.
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