A Winged Mer Hermaphrodite and Sketches for a Bowl
date: label: Date
content: early 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle. At top right, a chimaera as a support of a bowl. At top left, somewhat more than the left half of the elevation of a bowl is shown. Most of another design, at left below, has been drawn over by "A." The body of the mermaid figure is shown in profile, turned toward left. The face is lowered toward the left shoulder. The creature walks with the forelegs upon the water from which a plant rises at left. Verso: ovoidal units filled with acanthus leaf palmettes are joined to a chain. Three different motifs are devised in a vertical row.
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: 1938-88-501
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and brown iron gall ink, red chalk, graphite on off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 25.3 × 18.2 cm (9 15/16 × 7 3/16 in.)