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Blackamoor Figure of a Fruit Vendor and Blackamoor Figure of a Servant
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, Meissen, Germany, founded 171019th century
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
(a) robed, black female figure in squared headdress, holding basket of lemons; (b) turbaned black male holding covered cup on tazza. Based on models of about 1740.
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- Title: Blackamoor Figure of a Fruit Vendor and Blackamoor Figure of a Servant
- Creator: Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, Meissen, Germany, founded 1710
- Date Created: 19th century
- Location Created: Germany
- Original Source: See this work of art on the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum website
- Medium: porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold
- Credit line: Gift of the Estate of James Hazen Hyde
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