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Boehm is the collector's name for the
porcelains of Edward Marshall Boehm. In 1953 the Osso China Company was reorganized
as Edward Marshall Boehm, Inc. The company is still working in England and New Jersey.
At the beginning dishes were made, but the elaborate and lifelike bird figurines
are the best-known ware. Edward Marshall Boehm, the founder, died in 1969, but the
firm has continued to design and produce porcelain. Today, the firm makes both limited
and unlimited editions of figurines and plates.
In January 1951, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art acquired two of Mr. Boehm's first sculptures, a Percheron Stallion
and Hereford Bull. Vincent Andrus, then curator of the American Wing, described the
porcelains to the New York Times as "equal to the finest of superior English
work." Other museums took notice of Boehm, as did fine galleries and collectors.
Boehm expanded through the years at a measured pace, always placing qualitative considerations
ahead of quantitative. Today the porcelains are in 134 museums and institutions throughout
the world.
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