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A sculptural putto figure holding a globe banded with gold. The putto has brown hair, red lips, and a light purple fabric draped across their body. A sculptural putto figure holding a globe banded with gold. The putto has brown hair, red lips, and a light purple fabric draped across their body. A sculptural putto figure holding a globe banded with gold. The putto has brown hair, red lips, and a light purple fabric draped across their body. A sculptural putto figure holding a globe banded with gold. The putto has brown hair, red lips, and a light purple fabric draped across their body. A sculptural putto figure holding a globe banded with gold. The putto has brown hair, red lips, and a light purple fabric draped across their body. A sculptural putto figure holding a globe banded with gold. The putto has brown hair, red lips, and a light purple fabric draped across their body. A sculptural putto figure holding a globe banded with gold. The putto has brown hair, red lips, and a light purple fabric draped across their body. A sculptural putto figure holding a globe banded with gold. The putto has brown hair, red lips, and a light purple fabric draped across their body.

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory

Putto Holding Globe,

Description

Maker

  • Meissen Porcelain Manufactory

Title

Putto Holding Globe

Medium

porcelain

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • Porcelain with enamels,
  • glaze,
  • and gilding

Techniques

  • Porcelain with enamels,
  • glaze,
  • and gilding

Dimensions

12.6 cm (4 15/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

crossed swords under base

Place

Place Made: Meissen

Type

  • Ceramics

Credit

Bequest of Miss Lucy T. Aldrich

Object Number

55.183

About

Putto Holding Globe

Trading Earth

Ceramics, Commodities, and Commerce
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Soundwalk

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The Lucy Truman Aldrich Collection of European Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century

crossed swords under base

Place Made: Meissen

Projects & Publications

Publications

Soundwalk

Trading Earth
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Trading Earth

Ceramics, Commodities, and Commerce
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Arlene Shechet Interviewed by Judith Tannenbaum

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The Lucy Truman Aldrich Collection of European Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Trading Earth

April 9, 2022 - July 20, 2025

Raid the Icebox Now with Pablo Bronstein

September 20, 2019 - September 20, 2020

Arlene Shechet

January 17 - July 6, 2014

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is Putto Holding Globe with the accession number of 55.183. To request new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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