Chinese nodding head figures
1790-1820
19th Century
18 1/2 in. x 5 in. x 4 in.
Object Type:
Decorative Art
Medium and Support:
painted clay
Credit Line:
Florence Griswold Museum; Gift of Alys Griswold Haman
Accession Number:
2003.1.1&2
some damage-hands missing--heads bobble. Historic artifacts from Boxwood. Are "nodding-head" figures, which were unfired clay pieces exported from China as early as the mid-eighteenth century.