Four Continents
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1770
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: All relief plaques rectangular with domed tops and projections to the side, probably made to fit into a specific framework or piece of furniture.
label: Description
content: (a) Asia seated holding a gadrooned lamp in one hand and a leafy branch in the other, a camel's head coming in on the left; (b) Europe, seated holding a cornucopia of fruit and wheat above a helmet, on one side, the other arm around a tempietto a horse's head above, and with bishop's mitre in front and with ewer and basin below, and below her feet, a classical bust on books, a palette and brushes above a recorder or flute; (c) Africa-female African seated figure, her tightly curled hair in close cropped cap, one hand raised holding a crab, the other resting on a lion, a palm tree in the crook of her arm; (d) America, a Native American seated in feather skirt and with feather headdress, bare chested and barefoot, a rugged landscape with tree to one side, holding a parrot out on his hand above an alligator under his foot on the other.
place: label: made in
content: probably France
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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: 1960-1-9-c
objectType: label: Type
content: metalwork
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: Plaque
label: Type
content: Plaque
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Bronze
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 21.6 x 19.1 x 0.5 cm (8 1/2 x 7 1/2 x 3/16 in.)