Señorita Maria Jacoba was the fifth child born to Don Maximo Molo Agustin and his second wife, Carmen Devera Ygnacio in 1858. She was the middle child of nine and was described in the Paterno family memoir as “a reliable lieutenant to (her eldest sister) Agueda in managing house, home, and the jewelry business.” With encouragement from her brother, Don Pedro Paterno, by then the head of the Museo-Bibloteca de Filipinas, she would exhibit alongside her sisters their collection of old Filipino jewelry at the Exposition Regional de Filipinas in 1895.
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A Photographic Portrait of Señorita
Maria Jacoba Molo Agustin Paterno
10 1/4" x 8 3/8" (26 cm x 21 cm)
SOLD: PHP 397,120
Provenance: Don Pedro Alejandro Paterno (1857– 1911) and Doña Luisa Piñeyro de Lugo y Merino (Sra. de Paterno, d. 1897)
Literature: An identical photograph, labeled “Mestiza China” is part of the Album de Filipinas Publication c. 1870, from the Biblioteca Nacional de España