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Allegorical Figures of the 'Four Continents', Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present, Friedrich Elias Meyer, German, 1723 - 1785, hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold, 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., Germany, 18th century, ceramics, Decorative Arts, figures, figures