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Pagod
Made at: Meissen Manufactory (Germany)
German
about 1725, with later decoration
Medium/Technique
Hard-paste porcelain with colored enamel and gilded decoration; gilt-bronze stands
Dimensions
Overall: 25.6 x 19.3 x 100.3cm (10 1/16 x 7 5/8 x 39 1/2in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection
Accession Number65.2073
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
DescriptionOne of a pair with 65.2074. Seated chinoiserie figures holding blue green mauve shaded leaf. Orange yellow-cap with mauve band. Yellow shirt with blue colored flowered robe. White ground blue slippers. Attached to octangular rococo ormolu bases.
Marks
crossed swords unglaze blue on back edge of base
ProvenanceBy 1950, sold by Baron Anton Kiss de Ittebe (b. 1880 - d. 1970), Vienna, to Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York [see note]; April 22, 1950, sold by Rosenberg and Stiebel to Forsyth Wickes (b. 1876 - d. 1964), New York and Newport, RI; 1965, bequest of Forsyth Wickes to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 24, 1965)
NOTE: According to a letter from Hans Stiebel to Forsyth Wickes (April 22, 1950), this was purchased "from the son of the well-known lady of the Viennese aristocracy, Mrs. von Kiss-Schratt."
NOTE: According to a letter from Hans Stiebel to Forsyth Wickes (April 22, 1950), this was purchased "from the son of the well-known lady of the Viennese aristocracy, Mrs. von Kiss-Schratt."