Pot-à-Oille (Design for a Tureen with Handle for the Empress Josephine), plate 46, in Recueil de decorations intérieures (Collection of Interior Decorations)
date: label: Date
content: 1812
name: label: Designer
content: Charles Percier, French, 1764–1838
label: Designer
content: Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine, French, 1762–1853
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Tureen on a stand decorated with garlands, cow heads, and vases, above which stands a footed tureen. Tureen ornamented with classical female figures holding cornucopia that embrace a ‘J’; handles on each side made of winged female figures. Finial made of a woman holding a vase alongside two children. Above, design of handles: two winged nude female figures with legs made of leaves support a medallion portrait of the empress with garlands.
place: label: made in
content: France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1921-6-377-47
objectType: label: Type
content: metalwork
label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on cream wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: Open: 40.6 × 57.2 × 4.4 cm (16 in. × 22 1/2 in. × 1 3/4 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 40.5 × 27.5 cm (15 15/16 × 10 13/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 37.8 × 26.4 cm (14 7/8 × 10 3/8 in.)