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Allegorical Figure of "Africa"

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Manufacturer: Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present

After Peter Reinicke, German, 1715 - 1768 Gottfried Bernhard Göz, German, 1708 - 1774

Catalogue Status: Research in Progress

Description: Female figure, black, with elephant-head headdress, feather tunic, and leggings, holding lemon and sheaf of wheat, seated on crouching lion facing right; in the background, a tree.

Credit Line: Gift of the Estate of James Hazen Hyde

1775–1825

Restrictions & Rights: CC0

Type: ceramics, Decorative Arts

Medium: hard-paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold

Place: Germany

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Usage of Metadata (Object Detail Text): CC0