- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- BR33.15
- People
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Made by Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory, German ( 1747 - )
Designed by Franz Anton Bustelli, German (Locarno, Switzerland 1723 - 1763 Munich, Germany)
- Title
- Isabella
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- sculpture, figurine
- Date
- c. 1760
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, Germany, Nymphenburg
- Culture
- German
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Hard-paste porcelain.
- Dimensions
- sight: 19.8 cm (7 13/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- stamp: on bottom, impressed: Nymphenburg factory stamp: shield
- Provenance
- A.S. Drey, New York, sold to Charles L. Kuhn, 1933.
Charles L. Kuhn, Purchased from A.S. Drey, New York, Gift to HUAM, 1933.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Charles Kuhn in memory of Minnie S. Kuhn
- Object Number
- BR33.15
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Publication History
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Anneliese Harding, German Sculpture in New England Museums, Goethe Institute (Boston, MA, 1972), p. 19, repr. p. 70 as fig. 125
Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 218
- Exhibition History
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A Taste of Power: 18th-Century German Porcelain for the Table, Harvard University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 03/29/2008 - 06/30/2008
- Verification Level
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3 - Good. Object is well described and information is vetted