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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
- 21.6 × 14.9 cm (8 1/2 × 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
Vase in the form of a pitcher. Shell-shaped forms near the neck and lid, the handle connected to the base by a snake-like chain. Sitting on the handle is a crouching dog baring its teeth. Reclining in the slope of the neck, at right, a putto figure. The plate is printed in red ink (sanguine). The plate is signed and numbered.
