Design for an Urn on a Stand
date: label: Date
content: 1827-1835
name: label: Designer
content: Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The spout shown in right profile. The spout terminates in a bird's head, and a fish forms the valve handle. The body of the urn is decorated with leaf clusters and the handles are formed by swans springing from acanthus rinceaux. The stand is composed of acanthus leaf panels alternating with overlapping fan-shaped motifs.
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: 1911-28-322
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Type
content: drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and black ink, brush and gray, black wash on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 50.5 × 36.3 cm (19 7/8 × 14 5/16 in.)