Design for a panel decoration showing a ewer, for a plate in the "Recueil d' Ornements"
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1775
name: label: Artist
content: Gilles Paul Cauvet, French, 1731–1788
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A thyrsus is fastened to a pitcher by a festoon. The pitcher shows bacchic scenes; water pours from the dolphin forming the handle. A grape vine grows around it. Plates and fruit on the base.
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: 1911-28-34
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Black chalk, pen and ink, brush and wash
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 21.4 x 15.6 cm (8 7/16 x 6 1/8 in.)