Design for a Coffee Urn
date: label: Date
content: 1821-1823
name: label: Attributed to
content: Johann Nepomuk
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A pedestal decorated with a palmette and on top is the receptacle for a spirit lamp. The egg-shaped body of the urn rises between two mermaids flanking the dolphin head with the hole for the spout which is lightly sketched in pencil at left. The foreparts of two swans form the handles.
place: label: made in
content: Germany
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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: 1911-28-323
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Type
content: drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and gray ink, brush and gray-brown wash, graphite on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 49.1 × 32.5 cm (19 5/16 × 12 13/16 in.)