Chinese Couple in an Arbor
Meissen Manufactory
(Germany)
Peter Reinicke
(German, 1715–1768)
Gabriel Huquier
(French, 1695–1772)
about 1755–60
Medium/TechniqueHard-paste porcelain, colored enamels, gilding
DimensionsOverall: 18.2 x 12 x 10.9 cm (7 3/16 x 4 3/4 x 4 5/16 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection
Accession number65.2066
On View
Not on viewClassificationsCeramics
Collections
ProvenanceAlexandre Popoff et Cie., Paris; probably sold by Popoff to Mrs. William Platt [see note 1]; February 18-19, 1938, Platt and others sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, lot 218, 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)
NOTES:
[1] In the catalogue of the 1938 Platt auction ("English and American Furniture," Parke-Bernet, New York, February 18-19, 1938, p. 44), this object, along with several other pieces of porcelain from the collection of Mrs. Platt, are said to have come from Popoff et Cie.
NOTES:
[1] In the catalogue of the 1938 Platt auction ("English and American Furniture," Parke-Bernet, New York, February 18-19, 1938, p. 44), this object, along with several other pieces of porcelain from the collection of Mrs. Platt, are said to have come from Popoff et Cie.
