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The group includes a priest and various children and adult attendants, some playing musical instruments or singing, others bowing down in worship and all positioned around the central small figure of a idol or 'pagod' seated on a tall pedestal.\r\n\r\nBustelli's figure illustrates the continuing fascination for the exotic in fashionable society. Oriental figures had been modelled by Kändler at the influential Meissen porcelain factory from about 1740 onwards.  However, an interesting fresco in the Chinese pavilion (Pagodenburg) in the grounds of Nymphenburg castle, executed in by Johann Anton Gumpp in 1719, may have inspired Bustelli to use this particular format for his integrated group.  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