Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present
- Attributed to
- Johann Joachim Kändler, German, 1706 - 1775
- After
- Gottfried Bernhard Göz, German, 1708 - 1774
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- "Africa" female figure, black, with elephant-head coif, feather tunic and legings, holding sheaf of wheat; seated on crouching lion, facing left.
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Estate of James Hazen Hyde
- ca. 1760
- Accession Number
- 1960-1-28-c
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- ceramics
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- figure
- Type
- figure
- Medium
- hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 30.3 x 23.3 x 15.2 cm (11 15/16 in. x 9 3/16 in. x 6 in.)
- Place
- Germany
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1960-1-28-c
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq49760cadc-292f-4ccb-9406-21beefa0206a
