Pair of Porcelain Hotei Mounted as Two-Light Candelabra
date: label: Date
content: 1740–1745
name: label: Attributed to
content: Mennecy Porcelain Manufactory, French, active 1735 – 1773
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Seated figure ("laughing buddha") in glazed white porcelain with a swirling, leafy, bifurcated ormolu branch terminating in two candle sockets.
place: label: Place
content: France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Anonymous Donor
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1967-48-124-a,b
objectType: label: Type
content: ceramics
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: candelabra
label: Type
content: candelabra
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: soft paste porcelain; bronze, gold
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 25.5 × 11.5 × 31.5 cm (10 1/16 × 4 1/2 × 12 3/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 30.5 × 12.3 × 25.3 cm (12 in. × 4 13/16 in. × 9 15/16 in.)