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Group comprises a seated Chinese woman with two children. She has on her right knee a Chinese boy, head shaven except for two tufts at the ears, holding drum sticks. In her left hand is a porcelain dome (a cymbal). Her face is turned towards the older boy, standing at her left side, also holding drum sticks. Base decorated with modelled coloured flowers and leaves. The woman's three-quarter length robe is white, painted with Indian flowers; pink collar and cuffs and green sash. She has a yellow underdress and red shoes. The older boy wears a pink robe with a yellow sash and grey trousers, the younger a white robe with a purple dotted pattern and green trousers.

This object is from a series of Chinese figure groups modelled at Meissen by Kändler, Reinicke and Meyer from 1750. They were taken from the engravings of 'Les Délices de L' Enfance' by Jean-Joseph Balechou and Francois-Antoine Aveline, after Francois Boucher.