Vase de marbre blanc, dans la grande allée à Versailles
date: label: Date
content: 1744–56
name: label: Print Maker
content: Marie Michelle Blondel, French, active mid 18th century
label: Sculptor
content: Jean Hardy, French, 1653 – 1737
label: Publisher
content: Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a vase form the Great Lawn in the gardens at Versailles. The vase is decorated with interlaced L’s, surrounded by branches with leaves and buds, tied together with ribbon. The lower section is ornamented with a strapwork and acanthus leaf design. The frieze along the foot of the vase includes shell and fleurs-de-lys. The description is lettered on either side of the foot of the vase, with a scale below the base. 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: 1921-6-475-17
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper