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Allegorical figure of Smell
Made at: Chelsea Manufactory (England, active 1745–1784)
Modeled by: Joseph Willems (Belgian, 1710–1766)
Modeled by: Joseph Willems (Belgian, 1710–1766)
English
about 1755
Object Place: Europe, England
Medium/Technique
Soft-paste porcelain
Dimensions
29.84 cm (11 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Richard C. Paine
Accession Number30.297
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
Description"Smelling" from the set of Five Senses. Youth seated on stump with raised flowers holding a vase, with pierced rim and painted flowers, with a setter dog with raised nose at his feet. Wears a yellow cloak with sprays of flowers in colors with pink lining . Toe damaged. Others in the series are 30.298, .299., and .360. A variant of this model is 1988.654a-b
InscriptionsMark: red anchor
ProvenanceBy 1925, Alfred E. Hutton, London [see note 1]. By 1930, Richard C. Paine, Boston; 1930, gift of Richard C. Paine to the MFA. (Accession date: April 3, 1930)
Note 1:
The figure is illustrated in William King, English Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century (London and Boston: The Medici Society, 1925), fig. 18. A similar allegorical figure is illustrated in "English Porcelain Circle Transactions," No. II (1929) from the Alfred Hutton Collection.
Note 1:
The figure is illustrated in William King, English Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century (London and Boston: The Medici Society, 1925), fig. 18. A similar allegorical figure is illustrated in "English Porcelain Circle Transactions," No. II (1929) from the Alfred Hutton Collection.