Design for a Vase
date: label: Date
content: 1764
name: label: Designer
content: Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, French, 1727 – 1801
label: Print Maker
content: Benigno Bossi, Italian, 1727 – 1792
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a vase with a ribbed body, lions heads with rings in their mouths on either side of the vase with two kneeling female nudes sitting on top of their heads and holding onto a laurel leaf frieze around the neck of the vase. A handle in the middle of the vase, in between the lions’ heads. The vase is signed, dated, and numbered.
place: label: made in
content: France
label: published in
content: Parma, Italy
label: published in
content: Milan, 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: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1921-6-471-37
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper