EUROPE AND AMERICA
Figure Group
ca. 1750-ca. 1760 (made)
ca. 1750-ca. 1760 (made)
| Place of origin |
Figure group depicting personifications of Europe and America, porcelain.
Object details
| Categories | |
| Object type | |
| Title | EUROPE AND AMERICA (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Soft-paste porcelain |
| Brief description | Figure group personifying Europe and America, porcelain, Saint-Cloud porcelain factory, France, about 1750-1760 |
| Physical description | Figure group depicting personifications of Europe and America, porcelain. |
| Credit line | Given by J. H. Fitzhenry |
| Object history | Collector's label on base: 'No. 14101[or 7] Z B 55' |
| Production | Formerly attributed to Saint-Cloud (but very different in modelling and construction from more certain Saint-Cloud figures). Perhaps made at Orléans. See Object Information File. Based on a Meissen group modelled by Friedrich Elias Meyer, which dates it after 1748 (Meyer was active at Meissen 1748-61; for a 19th-century reproduction of the companion Meissen figure see C.2561-1910). |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Bibliographic reference | See Object Information File. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.459-1909 |
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| Record created | June 7, 2004 |
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