Figure of a woman
Mennecy Manufactory
(France)
about 1740
Medium/TechniqueSoft-paste porcelain with colored enamel decoration
DimensionsOverall: 11.1 x 6.6cm (4 3/8 x 2 5/8in.)
Other (at base): 7.6cm (3in.)
Other (at base): 7.6cm (3in.)
Credit LineGift of Rita and Frits Markus
Accession number1982.779
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On viewClassificationsCeramics
Collections
ProvenanceBy the 1930s, sold by Abbé Samson, Cayeux sur Mer, Somme, France, to Gilbert Lévy (b. 1884 - d. 1944), Paris [see note 1]; November 23, 1967, posthumous Lévy sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 64, to Denyse Shalam; December, 1967, given by Denyse Shalam to Rita and Frits Markus, New York and Chatham, MA; 1983, gift of Rita and Frits Markus to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 12, 1983)
NOTES
[1] According to handwritten notes in the curatorial file, apparently from Lévy's son.
NOTES
[1] According to handwritten notes in the curatorial file, apparently from Lévy's son.
