Allegories of the Four Continents
date: label: Date
content: early-mid 18th century
name: label: After
content: Jacques Le Moyne
label: After
content: Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Group of four tiles, square, with blue underglaze decoration on buff ground, each with name of one of the four continents, and corresponding allegory and attributes within a circular medallion: -72a, "Asia," showing turbaned figure riding in a howdah on back of an elephant, with two attendants; birds in foreground, turreted architecture in background; -72b, "Europa," showing a lady, cavalier and dog in foreground, watching woman in a sedan chair carried by two men; European style buildings in background; -72c, "Africa" with a turbaned man and woman, with attendant holding parasol, with the attributes of monkey, ostrich and camel; -72d, "America" showing an Indian in feather skirt and headdress, carried on a litter by five similarly but less ornately dressed Indians, and attended by one holding a fan; at left a conquistador on horseback, and a cockatoo on a branch; in right background, a sailing ship.
place: label: made in
content: Spain
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the Estate of James Hazen Hyde
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1960-1-72-a
objectType: label: Type
content: tiles
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: Tiles
label: Type
content: Tiles
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Tin-glazed earthenware
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (a): 3.3 x 26.8 x 27 cm (1 5/16 x 10 9/16 x 10 5/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (b): 3 x 26.7 x 26.9 cm (1 3/16 x 10 1/2 x 10 9/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (c): 3.2 x 25.9 x 26.8 cm (1 1/4 x 10 3/16 x 10 9/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (d): 3.4 x 26.5 x 26.7 cm (1 5/16 x 10 7/16 x 10 1/2 in.)