Vase Design
date: label: Date
content: early 18th century
name: label: Designer
content: Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731
label: Print Maker
content: Balthazar Pavillon, French, 1649 - 1729
label: Publisher
content: Balthazar Pavillon, French, 1649 - 1729
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a lidded vase in a krater form on a stem, with grotesque motifs including putti, mascarons (masks), cartouche, fluting, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), a snake, gadrooning, and festoons of leaves. The body of the vase is decorated with a frieze with military figures in classical armor with flames on a pedestal and a herm. The plate is numbered and signed.
place: label: made in
content: France
label: published in
content: Aix-en-Provence, 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: 1921-6-411-64
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper