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Figure of a Lady
German
about 1765–70
Medium/Technique
Hard-paste porcelain
Dimensions
Height: 28.6 cm (11 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Kiyi and Edward M. Pflueger Collection. Bequest of Edward M. Pflueger and Gift of Kiyi Powers Pflueger
Accession Number2006.915.1
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
DescriptionOne of a pair. Standing before tree-stumps, in turquoise hat, gilt-flowered bodice with blue border, red and green flowered apron and pink skirt, black hat, green-edged russet jerkin and green and russet striped breeches, the bases with patches of grass-work
Provenance1929, Siegfried Salz, Berlin; March 26-27, 1929, Siegfried Salz sale, Cassirer and Helbing, Berlin, lot 446 [see note 1], possibly sold to Otto Blohm (b. 1870 - d. 1944) and Magdalena Blohm (b. 1879 - d. 1950), Hamburg, Caracas, and New York; April 25, 1961, Blohm sale, Sotheby's, London, lot 386 [see note 2], probably sold to Edward M. Pflueger (b. 1905 - d. 1997) and Kiyi Powers Pflueger (b. 1915 - d. 2006), New York; 2006, bequest of Edward M. Pflueger and gift of Kiyi Powers Pflueger to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 26, 2006)
NOTES:
[1] Described as "Singspielfigur" of unknown manufactory. [2] When it was in the Blohm collection it was described as "Lady (Singer)," perhaps Ludwigsburg Manufactory. Published in Robert Schmidt, Early European Porcelain as Collected by Otto Blohm (Munich, 1953), pp. 198-199, pl. 79.
NOTES:
[1] Described as "Singspielfigur" of unknown manufactory. [2] When it was in the Blohm collection it was described as "Lady (Singer)," perhaps Ludwigsburg Manufactory. Published in Robert Schmidt, Early European Porcelain as Collected by Otto Blohm (Munich, 1953), pp. 198-199, pl. 79.