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Figure of Ragonda

(German, about 1703–1780)
about 1752
Object PlaceGermany
Medium/TechniqueHard-paste porcelain with enamel decoration
DimensionsHeight: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.)
Credit LineKiyi and Edward M. Pflueger Collection. Bequest of Edward M. Pflueger and Gift of Kiyi Powers Pflueger
Accession number2006.869
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsCeramics
Collections
ProvenanceOtto Blohm (b. 1870 - d. 1944) and Magdalena Blohm (b. 1879 - d. 1950), Hamburg, Caracas, and New York [see note 1]; 1949, sold by Mrs. Blohm to Edward M. Pflueger (b. 1905 - d. 1997) and Kiyi Powers Pflueger (b. 1915 - d. 2006), New York [see note 2]; 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. 133, cat. no. 170, pl. 49. [2] Lent to the "European Porcelain: A Special Exhibition," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, March 18-May 15, 1949, cat. no. 201.

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