Design for a Sculpture in the Form of a Ewer
date: label: Date
content: late 17th–18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a sculpure of a ewer on a socle or plinth. The sprout, handle, body, and foot of the ewer are decorated with male mascarons and acanthus leaf and shell motifs. A seated male figure reaches up and holds the scroll end of the sprout, with a dolphin at his feet. The body of the ewer is decorated with a frieze of figures.
place: label: made in
content: 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: 1921-6-236-39
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper