Figure of a Parrot
Höchst Manufactory
(Germany)
about 1750
Medium/TechniqueTin-glazed earthenware (faience)
DimensionsHeight: 38.1 cm (15 in.)
Credit LineKiyi and Edward M. Pflueger Collection. Bequest of Edward M. Pflueger and Gift of Kiyi Powers Pflueger
Accession number2006.911
On View
Not on viewClassificationsCeramics
Collections
ProvenanceAdolf Beckhardt (dealer; b. 1890 - d. 1962), Frankfurt and New York [see note 1]. Otto Blohm (b. 1870 - d. 1944) and Magdalena Blohm (b. 1879 - d. 1950), Hamburg, Caracas, and New York; April 25, 1961, Blohm sale, Sotheby's, London, lot 343, sold for £3,000, 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 the 1961 Sotheby's catalogue. Beckhardt was a dealer in Frankfurt, who emigrated to the United States in 1939 and established The Art Exchange in New York.
NOTES:
[1] According to the 1961 Sotheby's catalogue. Beckhardt was a dealer in Frankfurt, who emigrated to the United States in 1939 and established The Art Exchange in New York.
