Design for an Apparatus for Boiling Water
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1810
name: label: Designer
content: Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Front view. Ovoidal plinth. Two scrolls topped by lion heads hold the body which is shaped as a part of an egg. The bottom section of the cover is surrounded by a kind of railing; the top section shows cut out quatrefoils. A tripod censer on top. The spout starts from a mask. Underneath: a receptacle for spirits consisting of an egg shape and the foreparts of crouching dragons.
place: label: made in
content: Augsburg, Germany
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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: 1911-28-325
objectType: label: Type
content: metalwork
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and black ink, brush and gray, black wash on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 43.7 x 27.7 cm (17 3/16 x 10 7/8 in.)