Figure of Brigadel
Fürstenberg Manufactory
(Germany)
Simon Feilner
(1726–1798)
about 1754
Object PlaceGermany
Medium/TechniquePorcelain
DimensionsHeight: 20.3 cm (8 in.)
Credit LineKiyi and Edward M. Pflueger Collection. Bequest of Edward M. Pflueger and Gift of Kiyi Powers Pflueger
Accession number2006.889
On View
Not on viewClassificationsCeramics
Collections
ProvenanceH. Lange, Mainz [see note 1]. By 1932, Otto Blohm (b. 1870 - d. 1944) and Magdalena Blohm (b. 1879 - d. 1950), Hamburg, Caracas, and New York [see note 2]; July 4, 1960, Blohm sale, Sotheby's, London, lot 176o, 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] According to Robert Schmidt, Early European Porcelain as Collected by Otto Blohm (Munich, 1953), p. 152, cat. no. 210. [2] Robert Schmdit, Porcelain as an art and a mirror of fashion, trans. and ed. W. A. Thorpe (London, 1932), p. 268, fig. 179.
NOTES:
[1] According to Robert Schmidt, Early European Porcelain as Collected by Otto Blohm (Munich, 1953), p. 152, cat. no. 210. [2] Robert Schmdit, Porcelain as an art and a mirror of fashion, trans. and ed. W. A. Thorpe (London, 1932), p. 268, fig. 179.
Fürstenberg Manufactory
