Figure of Europe and America from the Four Continents
Cleveland Museum of Art

Figure of Europe and America from the Four Continents

Chelsea Porcelain Factory (Britain, London, 1745–84) · c. 1760

soft-paste porcelain
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

Figural representations of the four continents date back to the 1500s, but such imagery became even more popular in the 1700s as European empires expanded.

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