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Flower-basket and cover
Made by: Longton Hall Manufactory (England)
English
about 1755
Medium/Technique
Soft-paste porcelain
Dimensions
Height: 23 cm (9 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Kiyi and Edward M. Pflueger Collection. Bequest of Edward M. Pflueger and Gift of Kiyi Powers Pflueger
Accession Number2006.1120a-b
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
DescriptionThe basket modeled as wickerwork, painted with flowersprays, the two-handled cover with a large bouquet of flowers.
ProvenanceOtto Blohm (b. 1870 - d. 1944) and Magdalena Blohm (b. 1879 - d. 1950), Hamburg, Caracas, and New York [see note 1]. By 1993, 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] Robert Schmidt, Early European Porcelain as Collected by Otto Blohm (Munich, 1953), p. 270, cat. no. 396.
NOTES:
[1] Robert Schmidt, Early European Porcelain as Collected by Otto Blohm (Munich, 1953), p. 270, cat. no. 396.