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Ornamental Vase Design
François Boucher (French, 1703–1770)
ca. 1738
- Medium
- Etching in red ink on cream laid paper
- Classification
- Metalwork
- Dimensions
- 21.5 × 14.9 cm (8 7/16 × 5 7/8 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Lidded vase with finial. Three putti support the vase on their backs. The vase is decorated with fluting; at the shoulder of the vase are three lion’s masks with rings in their mouths, connected by festoon drapery. The plate is printed in red ink (sanguine). The plate is signed and numbered.
