La Scaramouche
Höchst Manufactory
(Germany)
Johann Christoph Ludwig von Lücke
(German, about 1703–1780)
about 1752
Object PlaceGermany
Medium/TechniqueHard-paste porcelain with enamel decoration
DimensionsHeight: 19.7 cm (7 3/4 in.)
Credit LineKiyi and Edward M. Pflueger Collection. Bequest of Edward M. Pflueger and Gift of Kiyi Powers Pflueger
Accession number2006.871
On View
Not on viewClassificationsCeramics
Collections
ProvenanceBy 1908, Adolf Moritz List (b. 1861 - d. 1938), Magdeburg [see note 1]. Otto Blohm (b. 1870 - d. 1944) and Magdalena Blohm (b. 1879 - d. 1950), Hamburg, Caracas, and New York; October 9, 1961, Blohm sale, Sotheby's, London, lot 644, probably to Edward M. Pflueger (b. 1905 - d. 1997) and Kiyi Powers Pflueger (b. 1915 - d. 2006), New York; 2006, bequest of Edward M. Pflueger and gift of Kiyi Powers Pflueger to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 26, 2006)
NOTES:
[1] Edmund Wilhelm Braun-Troppau, "Die Frühzeit der Figuralen Plastik in der Höchster Porzellanfabrik," Kunst und Kunsthandwerk 11 (1908), p. 542, ill. This figure was not included in either of the sales of the List collection held in Berlin in 1939 and 1940.
NOTES:
[1] Edmund Wilhelm Braun-Troppau, "Die Frühzeit der Figuralen Plastik in der Höchster Porzellanfabrik," Kunst und Kunsthandwerk 11 (1908), p. 542, ill. This figure was not included in either of the sales of the List collection held in Berlin in 1939 and 1940.
