Europe and America. Culture: French, Vincennes. Dimensions: Overall: 12 1/2 × 10 5/8 × 6 7/8 in. (31.8 × 27 × 17.5 cm). Factory: Vincennes Manufactory (French, ca. 1740-1756). Modeler: Le Boiteux (active 1747-52). Date: ca. 1752.A very limited number of figures and figure groups were made at the Vincennes porcelain factory; it was only after the move to a larger building at Sèvres in 1756 that the factory produced figures on a significant scale. This group with the personifications of Europe and America was made with a pendant, which represents the continents of Asia and Africa. In the present composition, Europe is depicted wearing a crown and reclining against her horse, with flags and a cornucopia at her feet. America, in a feathered headdress and skirt, holds a bow with a quiver of arrows and has a crocodile at her back. In the eighteenth century, these various attributes would have made the two continents to which they allude immediately identifiable. The vast majority of the fig