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Budai Monk
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
This figurine, inspired by Chinese soapstone figures, was a very popular product of the Meissen porcelain factory. They were known as 'pagodas', after the Buddhist temples with which they were associated. Margarethe and Franz Oppenheimer originally had more than thirty of these Budai figures in their collection.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineBudai Monk. c. 1715. Meissener Porzellan Manufaktur. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
