Figure of Guanyin with a parrot
about 1700
Medium/TechniqueTin-glazed earthenware, colored enamels
DimensionsHeight : 37.5 cm (14 3/4 in.)
Credit LineThe G. Ephis Collection—Museum purchase with funds donated anonymously, Charles Bain Hoyt Fund, John H. and Ernestine A. Payne Fund, Mary S. and Edward J. Holmes Fund, William Francis Warden Fund, Tamara Petrosian Davis Sculpture Fund, John Lowell Gardner Fund, Seth K. Sweetser Fund, H. E. Bolles Fund, and funds by exchange from the Kiyi and Edward M. Pflueger Collection-Bequest of Edward M. Pflueger and Gift of Kiyi Powers Pflueger
Accession number2012.621
On View
On viewClassificationsCeramics
Collections
Provenance1990, G. Lafontaine, Belgium; November 6, 1990, posthumous Lafontaine and others sale, Christie’s, Amsterdam, lot 105. 1996, sold by Aronson Antiquairs (dealer), Amsterdam, to the G. Ephis collection (private collector), France; 2012, sold by the G. Ephis collection to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 24, 2012).
about 1730
second half of the 18th century
about 1725-1760
about 1750-1775
about 1810
first half of 18th century
mid-18th century
