Pair of Magot Figures – Mounts: Unknown, Figures: Chantilly Porcelain Manufactory

Mounts: Unknown, Figures: Chantilly Porcelain Manufactoryabout 1740

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Imitating Asian designs in both form and decoration, the Chantilly porcelain manufactory produced these potpourri vases in France. These smiling seated figures with long earlobes, dressed in monks' robes, represent the popular Buddhist god of good fortune or contentment, known as Budai (Put'ai) in China and Ho-teiin Japan. In the 1700s, Europeans called these figures magots, meaning bizarre or grotesque figures in a Chinese or Japanese style, modeled in a variety of poses. So popular were they that one French writer in the mid-1700s exclaimed that "the taste for magotshas reached the height of stupidity."

To create potpourri, fashionable women of the 1700s experimented with dried petals and spices to achieve the finest fragrances, some of which were left to mature for up to nine years. The wealthy liberally used perfumes and potpourri to help disguise malodorous air, as indoor plumbing was nonexistent and frequent bathing was considered unhealthy.

作品介绍

• 标题: Pair of Magot Figures
• 创作者: Mounts: Unknown, Figures: Chantilly Porcelain Manufactory
• 日期: about 1740
• 外部链接: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
• 材质: Soft-paste porcelain, polychrome enamel decoration; gilt-bronze mounts
• Source Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
• Object Type: Figurine
• Object Status: Permanent Collection
• Number: 85.DI.380
• Display Location: Not currently on view
• Department: Sculpture & Decorative Arts
• Culture: French
• Classification: Decorative Arts

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The J. Paul Getty Museum