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Figure of Isabella

Made by: Fürstenberg Manufactory (Germany)
Modeled by: Simon Feilner (1726–1798)
German
about 1754
Object Place: Germany

Medium/Technique Hard-paste porcelain, colored enamels
Dimensions Height: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Kiyi and Edward M. Pflueger Collection. Bequest of Edward M. Pflueger and Gift of Kiyi Powers Pflueger
Accession Number2006.886
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsCeramicsPorcelain

DescriptionStanding, her left hand tucked into her coat, feathers in her hair, in iron-red coat with yellow borders and a blue skirt reserved with indianische Blumen in iron-red, yellow and green, its scalloped border edged in puce and yellow and with florettes in the same colors.
ProvenanceOtto Blohm (b. 1870 - d. 1944) and Magdalena Blohm (b. 1879 - d. 1950), Hamburg, Caracas, and New York; April 24, 1961, Blohm sale, Sotheby's, London, lot 418, 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)