Figure of Il Dottore

Vienna Manufactory

about 1765

Medium/TechniqueHard-paste porcelain

DimensionsHeight: 17.1 cm (6 3/4 in.)

Credit LineKiyi and Edward M. Pflueger Collection. Bequest of Edward M. Pflueger and Gift of Kiyi Powers Pflueger

Accession number2006.1018

On View

Not on view

ClassificationsCeramics

Collections

Europe

ProvenanceBy 1914, Karl Mayer, Vienna [see note 1]; November 19-21, 1928, Mayer sale, Glückselig, Vienna, lot 292, to 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 698, 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] Said in the 1928 auction catalogue to have been included in Josef Folnesics, Die Wiener-Porzellan-Sammlung Karl Mayer (Vienna, 1914), pl. XLIII.