Ewer Design
date: label: Date
content: early 18th century
name: label: Designer
content: Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731
label: Print Maker
content: Charles-Nicolas Cochin the elder, French, 1688–1754
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for an ewer with grotesque motifs featuring dragons, mascarons (masks), sphynx, vase of flowers, festoon of leaves, cartouche, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), foliate scrolls, fluting, gadrooning, diaper pattern with rosettes, and fish scales. The plate is signed.
place: label: made in
content: France
label: published in
content: Paris, 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: 1921-6-411-40
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper