Allegorical Figure of "America"
date: label: Date
content: 18th–19th century
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present
label: Modeler
content: Friedrich Elias Meyer, German, 1723 - 1785
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Standing female figure, wearing feather skirt, mantle, and headdress. Parrot perched on arm, quiver with arrows and relief cartouche with alligator.
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: 1960-1-29-d
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: 15 × 6.7 × 6.8 cm (5 7/8 × 2 5/8 × 2 11/16 in.)