Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- All relief plaques rectangular with domed tops and projections to the side, probably made to fit into a specific framework or piece of furniture.
- (a) Asia seated holding a gadrooned lamp in one hand and a leafy branch in the other, a camel's head coming in on the left; (b) Europe, seated holding a cornucopia of fruit and wheat above a helmet, on one side, the other arm around a tempietto a horse's head above, and with bishop's mitre in front and with ewer and basin below, and below her feet, a classical bust on books, a palette and brushes above a recorder or flute; (c) Africa-female African seated figure, her tightly curled hair in close cropped cap, one hand raised holding a crab, the other resting on a lion, a palm tree in the crook of her arm; (d) America, a Native American seated in feather skirt and with feather headdress, bare chested and barefoot, a rugged landscape with tree to one side, holding a parrot out on his hand above an alligator under his foot on the other.
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Estate of James Hazen Hyde
- ca. 1770
- Accession Number
- 1960-1-9-b
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- metalwork
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- Plaque
- Type
- Plaque
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 21.6 x 19.1 x 0.5 cm (8 1/2 x 7 1/2 x 3/16 in.)
- made in
- probably France
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1960-1-9-b
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4482f2b67-15cf-4dfe-ae73-bdc733749a26
