Images(6)

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.