Meissen pagoda "Chinese woman with parrot". Rectangular, quadripartite curved base with flattened corners. A Chinese woman with crossed legs sitting on a pink-coloured cushion with golden tassels, her head turned to the side and looking at the parrot on her left hand. She holds a fruit in her right hand. In a long, iron-red robe, patterned with Asian flowers. Her dark hair is covered by a black and gold pointed hat. Designed by Johann Friedrich Eberlein, c. 1735; remainder; crossed swords mark. H. 17 cm. This sculpture served as an incense burner. The ears, mouth and nose are open to allow smoke to escape. A pair, a Chinese woman and her male counterpart, are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (inv. no. 1982.60.321, 322) and in the British Museum in London (1948,1203.64). Cf. Sigalas/Chilton, Meissen porcelain figures of the eighteenth C., p. 480, no. 150; coll. Pauls, ill. 245. Provenance: from the dissolution of an important North German private collection, acquired in auction no. 99 at Schloss Ahlden, lot 846. A porcelain pagoda of a female Chinese with parrot. Restored. Crossed swords mark. Meissen. Circa 1735 - 1740.