Ornamental Vase Design
date: label: Date
content: 1761
name: label: Designer
content: L.N. Percenet, French, born 1736
label: Print Maker
content: L.N. Percenet, French, born 1736
label: Publisher
content: Geneviève-Marguerite Chéreau, French, active 1755-1768, d.1782
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vase with snakes for handles. The snakes terminate at a mascaron with wings on its head at the center below the shoulder. There is gadrooning at the base of the vase; the foot of the vase is formed from stylized acanthus leaves, with a band of gadrooning at the bottom. The vase is elevated on a platform the extends to the edge of the image. The plate is signed and numbered.
place: label: published in
content: Paris, 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: 1921-6-501-2
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper