Image: Africa, America, Europe and Asia, and Africa Figure, possibly ca. 1775 (CH 18429549-7) (cropped)
Description: Four figures (a, b, c, d) together form a set. (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.
Title: Africa, America, Europe and Asia, and Africa Figure, possibly ca. 1775
Credit: Catalog Photo
Author: Unknown artist
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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