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A LARGE MEISSEN NODDING 'PAGODA' FIGURE, CIRCA 1860 modelled as a grinning Chinoiserie figure seated cross-legged in purple lined floral robes, with articulated tongue, head and hands, underglaze blue crossed swords mark, incised 2883 31cm high, part of one finger lacking Provenance: Jonathan Ayliff (1825-1885), thence by direct family descent. Jonathan Ayliff was a Cape Town lawyer, who became a Member of the Parliament of the Cape of Good Hope and Colonial Secretary 1884/85. The nodding pagoda figure may just be discerned in the photograph of the drawing room of the family house, Greystones, in Grahamstown. The house had been built by Jonathan's father-in-law, John Wood, an apparently irascible man who refused to live there once it was completed. Greystones was sold on Jonathan's death and a female companion Pagoda figure was separated from this example, passing to a different child. See lot 524 for an item which belonged to Jonathan's sister, Esther Ayliff.Descriptions in both printed and on-line catalogue formats do not include condition reports and all lots are sold as viewed. The absence of a condition statement does not imply that the lot is in good condition. Prospective bidders are recommended to request a condition report prior to bidding, wherever possible satisfying themselves in person at the gallery as to the condition of a lot.