Food warmer
Nymphenburg Manufactory
(Germany)
about 1755–60
Object PlaceNeudeck, Germany
Medium/TechniqueHard-paste porcelain with colored enamel and gilded decoration
DimensionsOverall: 34.3 x 17.8 x 20.3 cm (13 1/2 x 7 x 8 in.)
Other (Overall): 16.5cm (6 1/2in.)
Other (Overall): 16.5cm (6 1/2in.)
Credit LineElizabeth Marie Paramino Fund in memory of John F. Paramino, Boston Sculptor, Gift of Mrs. Stuart C. Welch, and Bequest of Ruth A. Stafford, Portra Pratt Dahl, Marjorie S. Dutton, Theresa Ann Eliot, Elizabeth Martyr and Gift of William Taylor, by exchange
Accession number1985.228a-c
On View
On viewClassificationsCeramics
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Shaped like a miniature stove, this food warmer comprises a base with an opening for a candle, a bowl above to hold the prepared food, and a domed cover surmounted by a phoenix.
ProvenanceOtto Blohm (b. 1870 - d. 1944) and Magdalena Blohm (b. 1879 - d. 1950), Hamburg, Caracas, and New York; October 10, 1961, Blohm sale, Sotheby's, London, lot 668. By 1965, Antique Porcelain Company, New York (stock no. 6618) [see note 1]; April 15, 1985, sold by the Antique Porcelain Company to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 24, 1985)
NOTES:
[1] Lent to "Continental Table Porcelains of the Eighteenth Century," M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, October 25 - December 6, 1965, cat. no. 149.
NOTES:
[1] Lent to "Continental Table Porcelains of the Eighteenth Century," M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, October 25 - December 6, 1965, cat. no. 149.
