Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2011
The Year
Acquisitions
Art of Europe: July 2009–June 2011
Console table
about 1761–63
Alcora Manufactory
Overall: 97.8 x 137.2 x 68.6 x 140 cm (38 1/2 x 54 x 27 x 55 1/8 in.)
Tin-glazed earthenware
Classification: Ceramics
Culture: Spanish
Accession number: 2010.585
Location: Angelica Lloyd Russell Gallery (Europe, 1700–1800)
Provenance/Ownership History: About 1955, with Maurice de Rothschild (b. 1881 - d. 1957), Geneva; sold by or through Rothschild to Armand de Wittekind (d. 1970), Geneva; by inheritance to his widow, Charlotte de Wittekind, Geneva and Bas Monthoux, France; about 1978, sold by Mrs. Wittekind to Pierre Vandermeersch, Paris; about 1978, sold by Vandermeersch to a private collector ("B.L."), Paris; 2008, sold from this private ("B.L.") collection to Michel Vandermeersch and Alain Moatti for Voltaire Antiques, Paris; 2010, sold by Voltaire Antiques to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 22, 2010)
Henry H. and Zoe Oliver Sherman Fund