Three Vase Designs
date: label: Date
content: 1787–95
name: label: Designer
content: Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840
label: Print Maker
content: Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840
label: Publisher
content: François-Étienne Joubert, French, active 1787 – 1821
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Three individual numbered plates with designs for vases. The central plate with an urn style vase - featuring mythological figures, festoons of flowers, masks, trophies of instruments, fluting, fleurons and foliate motifs - has the title and address lettered above. The left plate (numbered 1) is a design for an ewer with a winged putto as the handle, featuring masks, gadrooning, fleurons, scrolling foliage and rosettes. The right plate (numbered 3) is a design for an ewer with a female nude as the handle, featuring a soldier in a horse drawn chariot on the body, a mask, beading, rosettes, and scrolling foliate motifs.
place: label: made in
content: 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: 1921-6-372-32
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper