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Taste from a set of the Senses
Made at: Bow Manufactory (England)
English
about 1755
Medium/Technique
Soft-paste porcelain, undecorated, mounted with painted metal (tole peinte) stems and leaves with soft- and hard-paste porcelain flower heads
Dimensions
Overall: 24 cm (9 7/16 in.)
Other (figure): 15.2 cm (6 in.)
Other (figure): 15.2 cm (6 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection
Accession Number65.2195
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
DescriptionWhite seated figure of a male, from a set of Senses of Hearing and Tasting. Right arm raised in drinking, left holding decanter, seated on barrel, in bocage of white flowers attached to simulated metal stems and leaves in green. See: 65.2194. Five flowers show some damage.
Marks
none
ProvenanceBy 1941 with Stoner & Evans, London and New York; April 1, 1941, sold by Stoner & Evans 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)