Figure of America
Date1765-1775
MediumSoft-paste porcelain
DimensionsH: 11 3/8" L:6 3/8" D: 6 1/2"
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number1936-742
DescriptionFigure representing America. Standing male figure wearing headband and loin cloth, each with applied feathers, holds bow in left hand and remains of tomahawk in right, right foot rests on a crocodile, irregular base and supporting tree trunk applied with floral sprigs.MarkingsThough this piece does not bear a mark in the true sense of the word, it does have "patch marks" on the reverse of the base, which are characteristic of Derby of this period.
ProvenanceBelonged to London dealer Sidney Hand, Ltd. (as CONNOISSEUR #224, April 1920, lxvi) Ex Coll.: F.E. Sidney (Illustrated: THE CHEYNE BOOK OF CHELSEA AND POTTERY {London, 1924} #253 pl. 23 called Chelsea and Europe of set illustrated William King, ENGLISH PORCELAIN FIGURES OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (London and Boston, 1925), fig. 47, called Derby)
1770-1784
1765-1775
1765-1775
ca. 1850
1765-1775
ca. 1745
1850-1875