Particular popularity is enjoyed by small song-birds, dogs and cats in colours as close as possible to those of the real animals. First place on the scale of popularity is, surprisingly, taken by the pug. In the eighteenth century, the pug was one of the most popular lapdogs for upper-class ladies and was there-fore a sought-after porcelain figure. Moreover, around 1740 the so-called Order of the Pug came into being, probably as a reaction to the papal ban on the mysterious Order of Freemasons in 1738. The Order of the Pug was presumably founded as a kind of game in order to combat the boredom of courtly ceremonial ritual.
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