Design for a Fountain
date: label: Date
content: late 17th–18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A design for a large ornamental fountain. Three male merman figures with acanthus leaf fins, hold up a large shell, with a sprouting dolphin in the middle, mounted by a mascaron. The whole is supported by a stone base, with a central mascaron of a male head, sprouting water from his mouth, decorated by C-scrolls, foliage, and shell ornament.
place: label: made in
content: 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: 1921-6-236-37
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper