Figure of Ragonda
Höchst Manufactory
(Germany)
Johann Christoph Ludwig von Lücke
(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 viewClassificationsCeramics
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.
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.
