Mother and child group
The adult figure holding a flower is a personification of "smelling" from a set representing the five Senses -hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting, and touching. The white porcelain was probably enameled in London.
Credit: Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1951
1750-55
Soft-paste porcelain
22.4cm
51.1.3
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
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