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 decorated with fluting and a Greek-key frieze, with two handles in the shape of elephants’ heads, two nude female figures sit on top of their heads, holding their trunks. A tasseled textile hangs between them with a garland of laurel leaves. The plate 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: 1921-6-471-27
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper