Allegorical Figure of "Africa"
date: label: Date
content: 18th century
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present
label: Modeler
content: Johann Joachim Kändler, German, 1706 - 1775
label: Modeler
content: Peter Reinicke, German, 1715 - 1768
label: After
content: Gottfried Bernhard Göz, German, 1708 - 1774
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: 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.
place: label: Place
content: Germany
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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: 1960-1-38-c
objectType: label: Type
content: ceramics
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: figure
label: Type
content: figure
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold
label: Dimensions
content: 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.)