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Figure of a Girl with a Monkey

Made by: Capodimonte Manufactory (Italian (near Naples))
Modeled by: Giuseppe Gricci (Italian, about 1700–1770)
Italian
about 1750
Object Place: Italy

Medium/Technique Soft-paste porcelain with enamel and gilded decoration
Dimensions Height: 14.9 cm (5 7/8 in.)
Credit Line Kiyi and Edward M. Pflueger Collection. Bequest of Edward M. Pflueger and Gift of Kiyi Powers Pflueger
Accession Number2006.952
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsCeramicsPorcelain

DescriptionIn white bonnet, gilt scarf and cuffs and with a blue scroll border to her white dress, the monkey in white fancy-dress with gilt edge on white rockwork base.
Marks Incuse fleur-de-lys mark
ProvenanceMarch 28, 1977, anonymous sale ("Property of a Noted European Collector") [see note 1], Christie, Manson and Woods, London, lot 138. Winifred Williams Antiques, London; June 22, 1977, sold by Williams to Edward M. Pflueger (b. 1905 - d. 1997) and Kiyi Powers Pflueger (b. 1915 - d. 2008), New York; 2006, bequest of Edward M. Pflueger and gift of Kiyi Powers Pflueger to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 26, 2006)

NOTES:
[1] Hugo Morely-Fletcher, "Early European Porcelain & Faience as Collected by Kiyi and Edward Pflueger" (London, 1993), suggests that the seller was Edmond de Rothschild.