Pagod

Meissen Manufactory (Germany)

about 1725, with later decoration

Medium/TechniqueHard-paste porcelain with colored enamel and gilded decoration; gilt-bronze stands

DimensionsOverall: 25.6 x 19.3 x 100.3cm (10 1/16 x 7 5/8 x 39 1/2in.)

Credit LineBequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection

Accession number65.2073

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ClassificationsCeramics

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Europe

ProvenanceBy 1950, sold by Baron Anton Kiss de Ittebe (b. 1880 - d. 1970), Vienna, to Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York [see note]; April 22, 1950, sold by Rosenberg and Stiebel to Forsyth Wickes (b. 1876 - d. 1964), New York and Newport, RI; 1965, bequest of Forsyth Wickes to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 24, 1965)

NOTE: According to a letter from Hans Stiebel to Forsyth Wickes (April 22, 1950), this was purchased "from the son of the well-known lady of the Viennese aristocracy, Mrs. von Kiss-Schratt."