Meissen manufactory, swords underglaze blue, I. Choice, seated Chinese woman in a richly decorated costume with necklace and slippers, head, tongue and both hands designed to be movable by counterweights, colored and painted in gold, plait best., H approx. 18 cm, late 19th century In the early years of the Meissner manufactory, pagodas were modeled on East Asian models. Around 1760, the "China fashion" experienced a late bloom, which led to downright eccentric productions. The wobbly pagoda goes back to a design from 1762. In that year, King Frederick II of Prussia ordered, among other things, no fewer than "10 bayodes with wiggling heads". See Rückert, Fig. 1027, p. 187; Berling, commemorative publication, Fig.1; Walcha, Fig. 95, p. 480.
