The Fox and the Stork

Charles Gouyn's Factory (St. James, London, working around 1747–1760)

Girl-in-a-Swing Manufactory

about 1752

Object PlaceEngland

Medium/TechniqueGlazed soft-paste porcelain

Dimensions13.97 cm (5 1/2 in.)

Credit LineGift of Richard C. Paine

Accession number53.1020

On View

On view

ClassificationsCeramics

Collections

Europe

ProvenanceBy 1924, Alfred Hutton, London. Stoner & Evans, dealer, London [see note 1]; By 1930, Frank Stoner, Stoner & Evans, sold to Richard C. Paine, Boston [see note 2]; 1953, gift of Richard C. Paine. (Accession date: June 16, 1953)

NOTES:
[1] See letter from Frank Stoner, June 14, 1932, in museum file. [2] According to museum files, Richard C. Pain first gave the figure to the MFA in 1930. Following a return to him and the dealer Frank Stoner, in order to review the figure's production, Richard C. Paine made a gift of the figure to the MFA again in 1953.