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Fürstenberg Manufactory (Germany)

Meissen Manufactory (Germany)

about 1750-1770

Object PlaceGermany

Medium/TechniquePorcelain, enamel decoration, gilding

DimensionsHeight x width: 12.7 × 15.9 cm (5 × 6 1/4 in.)

Credit LineGift of Samuel Putnam Avery

Accession number91.232

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ClassificationsCeramics

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Europe

InscriptionsInscribed in ink on a large paper label applied to back: "Presented to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Nov. 1891 by Saml. P. Avery, New York. Purchased by him in Munich in 1873 from a collector who said it had been long in his family and was considered a specimen of old Meissen ware, Royal Dresden."

ProvenancePrivate collector, Munich; 1873, sold to Samuel Putnam Avery, New York; November 1891, gift of Samuel Putnam Avery