Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2009
The Year
Acquisitions
Art of Europe: July 2008–June 2009
Juno
about 1745–55
Made by Doccia Manufactory
After Giuseppe Piamontini
Height: 38 1/2 in. (97.79 cm)
Glazed hard-paste porcelain
Classification: Sculpture
Culture: Italian (Florence)
Object Place: Florence, Italy
Accession number: 2008.1414
Location: Angelica Lloyd Russell Gallery (Europe, 1700–1800)
Provenance/Ownership History: 1980, Thomas O. Dunlap, Jr., Lake Wales, Florida; 1980, sold by Dunlap to Douglas R. Fuller, Lake Wales [see note 1]; 1980s, given by Fuller to I.W. Colburn, Lake Wales and Manchester, MA; 1992, by inheritance to Mrs. I.W. (Frances) Colburn, Manchester; 2008, partial gift of Mrs. Colburn to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 17, 2008) NOTES: [1] Mr. Fuller acquired the sculpture -- along with the Italianate home in which it was kept -- in the Mountain Lake community of Lake Wales. It is not known how long the sculpture had been in the house. The previous owner, Thomas O. Dunlap, resided there between 1971 and 1980.
Partial gift in memory of I. W. Colburn by Frances H. Colburn, Clarissa Colburn Hunnewell, and Oliver C. Colburn, and museum purchase with funds from the John Lowell Gardner Fund, John H. and Ernestine A. Payne Fund, Russell B. and Andrée Beauchamp Stearns Fund, Otis Norcross Fund, and Tamara Petrosian Davis Fund