Design for a Decorative Ewer
date: label: Date
content: 1765
name: label: Designer
content: Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Handle of ewer consists of swan kissing harpy who is encircled by a crouching female satyr. The body is decorated in neoclassical style, fluting, rope-like festoons, a female mask, suspended fruit garlands, coiled snake forms base.
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: 1911-28-385
objectType: label: Type
content: ornament
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 wash, black chalk on white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 24.2 x 14 cm (9 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.)