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Figure of a Parrot
German
about 1750
Medium/Technique
Tin-glazed earthenware (faience)
Dimensions
Height: 38.1 cm (15 in.)
Credit Line
Kiyi and Edward M. Pflueger Collection. Bequest of Edward M. Pflueger and Gift of Kiyi Powers Pflueger
Accession Number2006.911
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsCeramics – Pottery – Earthenware
DescriptionThe bird perched on a branch above high pierced roots, its head turned to one side and with a berry in its beak, decorated in brilliant colors with yellow head, blue back, green breast and red and green in the wing feathers and blue tail, the feathers indicated in darker tones, the high root base decorated in green, yellow-green and brown.
Marks
Wheel mark in brown and I:Z for Johannes Zeschinger.
ProvenanceAdolf Beckhardt (dealer; b. 1890 - d. 1962), Frankfurt and New York [see note 1]. 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 343, sold for £3,000, probably 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] According to the 1961 Sotheby's catalogue. Beckhardt was a dealer in Frankfurt, who emigrated to the United States in 1939 and established The Art Exchange in New York.
NOTES:
[1] According to the 1961 Sotheby's catalogue. Beckhardt was a dealer in Frankfurt, who emigrated to the United States in 1939 and established The Art Exchange in New York.