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DEACESSIONED September 23, 2010
Parrot Group
German
about 1750
Medium/Technique
Tin-glazed earthenware
Dimensions
Height: 34.3 cm (13 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Kiyi and Edward M. Pflueger Collection. Bequest of Edward M. Pflueger and Gift of Kiyi Powers Pflueger
Accession Number2006.906
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsCeramics
DescriptionNaturalistically colored in yellow, green, and red, perched on a high tree stump eating a cherry, a smaller parrot below
Marks
wheel mark and incised initial J.Z.
ProvenanceBy 1925, Baron Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (b. 1843 - d. 1940), Frankfurt. 1965, Mrs. Edward Hutton, New York; November 23, 1965, Hutton sale, Sotheby's, London, lot 68, sold to the Antique Porcelain Company for £4600. Kiyi and Edward Pflueger, New York; 2006, bequest of Edward M. Pflueger and gift of Kiyi Powers Pflueger to the MFA (Accession Date: April 26, 2006); September 23, 2010, deaccessioned by the MFA for sale through Christie's, New York, June 7, 2011 (sale 2448), lot 447.