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2018-158, Figure
Figure, Flora or Smell from the Five Senses
2018-158, Figure

Figure, Flora or Smell from the Five Senses

Date1756-1758
Maker Bow Porcelain Manufactory (1749-1776)
OriginEngland, London
MediumSoft-paste porcelain
DimensionsOH: 9 7/8 in.
Credit LineBequest of Abby M. O'Neill
Object number2018-158
DescriptionFigure of Flora or Smell from the five senses, her head titled to the right, a posy lifted to her nose, the barefoot young woman in a loose top with billowing drapery, standing beside a marble pedestal encrusted with flowers and surmounted by an urn, with a trellis of flowers on her right that descends into a basket of flowers at her feet. The Bow factory's version of the original Meissen figure of 'Smell' from the Five Senses by J-F Eberlein was sometimes called Flora.