Ornamental Vase Design
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1738
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 printed in red ink (sanguine). The plate is signed and numbered.
place: label: designed in
content: Paris, France
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: 1921-6-245-3
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bound print
label: Type
content: Bound print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching in red ink on cream laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 21.5 × 14.9 cm (8 7/16 × 5 7/8 in.)