Design for a Tureen
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1750
name: label: Designer
content: Caspar-Gottlieb Eisler, German, active 1707–1755
label: Publisher
content: Martin Englebrecht, German, 1684 – 1756
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a lidded tureen in a rococo style of metalwork, decorated with shellwork, acanthus leaves, grapes, and fruit on two feet shaped in the form of acanthus leaves and fronds. A boar’s head and a sheep are sculpted on sides with a bird and hare incorporated within the body and lid of the tureen. A cartouche in the middle is lettered with the number 65. Two plate numbers on each top edge of the plate, with the name of the artist and publisher lettered below.
place: label: made in
content: Germany
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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: 1921-6-300-1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on laid paper