Allegorical Figures of the "Four Continents"
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: (a): Standing female figure, wearing jeweled mantle and turban with half-moon, holding sceptre and censer. Relief cartouche with camel; (b): Standing female figure, wearing ermine and crown, holding sceptre and orb. Book, globe, cornice fragment, cornucopia and relief cartouche with horse; (c): Standing black female figure, wearing feather skirt, mantle, and elephant-head coif, holding sheaf of wheat. Relief cartouche with lion; (d): 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-a/d
objectType: label: Type
content: ceramics
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: figures
label: Type
content: figures
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (a: Asia): 15.7 × 9 × 6 cm (6 3/16 × 3 9/16 × 2 3/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (b: Europe): 15.3 × 9.5 × 5.5 cm (6 in. × 3 3/4 in. × 2 3/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (c: Africa): 15.2 × 6.7 × 6.8 cm (6 in. × 2 5/8 in. × 2 11/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (d: America): 15 × 6.7 × 6.8 cm (5 7/8 × 2 5/8 × 2 11/16 in.)