Ornamental Vase Design
date: label: Date
content: 1742-1750
name: label: Designer
content: François Boucher, French, 1703–1770
label: Print Maker
content: A. Bouchet, French, active ca. 1730-1740
label: Publisher
content: Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vase in the form of a perfume burner, with curving fluted forms, placed on a pedestal. Two climbing putti decorate the lid. At the sides are busts of winged female figures. At the front, a shell-like form and coral. Smoke clouds in the background. At the base of the vase, leafy branches. The plate is signed and numbered.
place: label: made in
content: Paris, France
label: published in
content: Paris, France
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
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: 1921-6-504-3
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bound print
label: Type
content: Bound print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on cream laid paper