Allegorical Figure of "Africa"
Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present
- Modeler
- Johann Joachim Kändler, German, 1706 - 1775
- Peter Reinicke, German, 1715 - 1768
- After
- Gottfried Bernhard Göz, German, 1708 - 1774
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Female figure, black, with elephant-head headdress, feather tunic and leggings, holding lemon and sheaf of wheat, seated on crouching lion facing right; in background, a tree.
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Estate of James Hazen Hyde
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1960-1-38-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: 19 x 14.8 x 10.5 cm (7 1/2 x 5 13/16 x 4 1/8 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_1960-1-38-c
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4cc3c9960-29a8-46b7-bc06-a9b71cb330bc
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