American Toby Jug Museum 

Mandarin candle snuffer produced by Royal Worcester of Worcester, England, in a 2002 limited edition of 500. A mandarin was a bureaucrat scholar in the history of China, Korea and Vietnam. The term is generally applied to the officials appointed through the imperial examination system. In the West, the term mandarin is associated with the concept of the scholar-official who immersed himself in poetry, literature, and Confucian learning in addition to performing civil service duties.