Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present Search this
Modeler:
Friedrich Elias Meyer, German, 1723 - 1785 Search this
Medium:
hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold
Dimensions:
H x W x D (a: Asia): 15.7 × 9 × 6 cm (6 3/16 × 3 9/16 × 2 3/8 in.)
H x W x D (b: Europe): 15.3 × 9.5 × 5.5 cm (6 in. × 3 3/4 in. × 2 3/16 in.)
H x W x D (c: Africa): 15.2 × 6.7 × 6.8 cm (6 in. × 2 5/8 in. × 2 11/16 in.)
H x W x D (d: America): 15 × 6.7 × 6.8 cm (5 7/8 × 2 5/8 × 2 11/16 in.)
Type:
ceramics
Decorative Arts
figures
Object Name:
figures
Place:
Germany
Date:
18th–19th century
Catalogue Status:
Research in Progress
Description:
(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.
