Allegorical Figure of "America"
date: label: Date
content: mid- 18th–early 19th century
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Alcora Ceramic Factory, Spanish, 1727 – 1858
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Female figure wearing a feathered skirt, knee bands, epaulettes and headdress, seated on alligator; right hand holding a ladle, left resting on back of a cockatoo; on her back a quiver with arrows, and on the ground a severed human head; marbled socle.
place: label: manufactured 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: 1960-1-52
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: soft paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 24.5 x 22 x 16 cm (9 5/8 x 8 11/16 x 6 5/16 in.)