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The production of decorative figures like this one, referred to as <em>magots </em>or <em>pagodes </em>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.
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125723
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Figure of Budai or Hotei with Jar
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Figure of Budai or Hotei with Jar
description
The production of decorative figures like this one, referred to as <em>magots </em>or <em>pagodes </em>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.
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c. 1735–40
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en
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Q60757149
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Ceramic
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Overall: 17.2 cm (6 3/4 in.)
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France, Chantilly
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1947.62
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Tin-glazed soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration
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Figure of Budai or Hotei with Jar, c. 1735–40. Chantilly Porcelain Factory (French). Tin-glazed soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration; overall: 17.2 cm (6 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Grace Rainey Rogers Fund, 1947.62
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Decorative Arts
inscriptions
inscription
[Mark of the Chantilly factory (red hunting horn), on bottom]
didYouKnow
In 1735, the Chantilly factory was given a 25-year royal privilege for the manufacture of objects that imitated Japanese porcelain.
citations
citation
Foote, Helen S. "French Soft-Paste Porcelain." <em>The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 34 (December 1947).
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p. 250
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Foote, Helen S. "Soft-Paste Porcelain of France." <em>The Art Quarterly</em> XI (Autumn 1948).
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p. 336, 343, 344, 347; fig. 2
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Ballu, Nicole. "Influence de l'Extrême-Orient sur le style de Chantilly au XVIIIe siècle." <em>Cahiers de la céramique et des arts du feu: Revue trimestrielle</em> 1958: 100-112.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
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Reproduced: p. 134
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
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Reproduced: p. 134
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Jedding, Hermann. <em>Europäisches Porzellan</em>. München: Keysersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. 1, 1971.
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p. 253; no. 768
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
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Reproduced: p. 176
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Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. <em>The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.
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Mentioned and reproduced: p. 60, fig. 62
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Vivian S. Hawes, and Christina S. Corsiglia. <em>The Rita & Frits Markus Collection of European Ceramics & Enamels</em>. Boston, Mass: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1984.
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p. 163-65
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D'Agliano, Andreina. "Eine höchst seltene Porzellan-Statuette aus Chantilly". <em>Keramos</em> 112 (April 1986): 3-8.
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Le Duc, Geneviève.<em> Porcelaine tendre de Chantilly au XVIIIe siècle: héritages des manufactures de Rouen, Saint-Cloud et Paris et influences sur les autres manufactures de XVIIIe siècle</em>. Paris: Hazan, 1996.
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p. 89-99
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Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Linda Horvitz Roth, and Clare Le Corbeiller. <em>French Eighteenth-Century Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum: The J. Pierpont Morgan Collection</em>. Hartford, CT: Wadsworth Atheneum, 2000.
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p. 40-41
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Le Corbeiller, Clare. "A Chantilly Magot with Globe: Suggested Evolution of a Model." <em>The French Porcelain Society Journal</em> 1 (2003): 91-101.
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Brunel, Georges. <em>Pagodes et dragons: exotisme et fantaisie dans l'Europe rococo, 1720-1770</em>. Paris: Paris-Musées, 2007.
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p. 160; no. 40
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Grace Rainey Rogers Fund
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2026-05-29 06:30:15.838000
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125723
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Decorative Art and Design
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Decorative Arts
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Tin-glazed soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration
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