Ornamental Vase Design
date: label: Date
content: 1737
name: label: Designer
content: Edme Bouchardon, French, 1698–1762
label: Print Maker
content: Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
label: Publisher
content: Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
label: Publisher
content: Chez Huquier
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vase in the shape of an urn divided into four distinct sections. The lid of the urn has a fish scale pattern, and a finial at the top. The neck of the urn is adorned with a relief band, on which is a scene of a man pursuing a woman (perhaps Pan and Syrinx) into the reeds; an older man sits in the water near Syrinx, leaning against a spilled vase, and holding his arm up (the iconography of a river god). The body of the vase is decorated in high relief: two tritons, each with one hand, pull open the mouth of a grotesque mask. The tails of the tritons twist between them and over their shoulders to form handles that reconnect at the bottom of the frieze. The foot of the vase is tall and thin and has twisted fluting. The finial at the top and the egg-and-dart foot of the urn exceed the boundaries of the shaded portion of the plate. The plate is lettered and numbered.
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: 1921-6-479-14
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper