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Kändler (1706-1775) worked for the Meissen porcelain factory between 1731 and 1775, a period of forty-four years in which he created over 2000 original models for figures, animals, groups and functional pieces such as this sweetmeat stand. In so doing he single-handedly established most of the sculptural conventions that governed the production of the earliest European porcelain figures. \r\n\r\nThe original sculpted model for this piece was listed in Kändler’s workbook in May 1735, where he described it as an ‘Indian grotto’ with shells and leaves for holding sweetmeats. He supplied two separately modelled and detachable seated figures – described as ‘Japanese’ – so that the factory could make these sweetmeat stands in matching pairs with male and female figures. Meissen factory documents often use the terms ‘Indian’ and ‘Chinese’ interchangeably for anything Chinese, and although Kändler described his figures as Japanese, the man’s scallop-bordered tunic and trousers are very similar to those of Meissen porcelain figures that were clearly intended as Chinese. \r\n\r\nThe term ‘sweetmeat’ was used for several different types of sweet delicacies, including cakes and pastries, sweets, and nuts and fruit preserved in sugar. They were served in the final, dessert course of a grand meal. ","physicalDescription":"Large sweetmeat stand with detatchable figure of a man in Chinese dress, hard-paste porcelain with 19th-century gilt-brass (ormolu) base, modelled by J.J. 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