Recto: Design for a Bottle with a Handle
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1600
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Recto: The lower part of body of the bottle is shaped like a bowl. On its rim stand two swans, to whose necks the handle is fastened. Alternative suggestions are made for the pose of the necks. A crowned escutcheon is shown in the center of the bottle. Verso: above, a staircase, five sections of entablatures, with measurements, a plan of decorative motif, formed by an equilateral cross, and circles. Lower section at right, six projects, two sketches for frames or parts of frames, some with alternative suggestions.
place: label: made in
content: Italy
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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: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-88-7429
objectType: label: Type
content: metalwork
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Red chalk, pen and black ink on laid paper; verso: graphite, pen and black ink
label: Dimensions
content: 29.1 x 21 cm (11 7/16 x 8 1/4 in.)