A large pair of North-Italian polychrome-painted papier-machê decorated Magots, a mandarin official and his consort, with tilting heads with lead weights.
A large pair of North-Italian polychrome-painted papier-machê decorated Magots, a mandarin official and his consort, with tilting heads with lead weights.
Literature
E. Quaglino, Il Mobile Piemontese, De Agostini- Göerlich, 1997, p. 148.
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A large pair of North-Italian polychrome-painted papier-machê decorated figures, known as Magots, of a mandarin official and his consort, with tilting heads with lead weights.
Each figure with a detachable weighted head, wearing long multi-layered robes with floral decorations and hands raised to their chest, standing on a rectangular base. Chinese nodding figures are rare.
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