Marks Bottom of base: [horse head Boehm factory mark] / Boehm [cursive] / Baby Wood Thrush [cursive] / W 444 / MADE IN U.S.A.
Inscription None
Provenance Designed for E.M. Boehm Studios, Trenton, New Jersey, by Edward Marshall Boehm (1913-1969), fabricated by E.M. Boehm Studios, 1958-1963 [see note 1]; Edward Marshall Boehm; his gift to the Birmingham Museum of Art through the Museum Art Education Council, Alabama, 1963
1. The Baby Wood Thrush was introduced in 1958 as an unlimited piece. The version of the figurine with the butterfly is a unique piece, produced sometime before 1963. For more information, see Palley, Reese. The Porcelain Art of Edward Marshall Boehm. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1976.
