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Design for a Bronze Mounted Vase
Emile Gallé (French, 1846 - 1904)
ca. 1890
- Medium
- Graphite on wove paper
- Classification
- Metalwork
- Dimensions
- 60.3 x 44.8 x 2.5 cm (23 3/4 x 17 5/8 x 1 in.)
- Culture
- Nancy
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Museum purchase from McNiel Fund
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Design for a symmetrical vase, sitting on a raised foot, flaring out from the bottom, narrowing at the neck, topped with a lipped rim. Its ornamentation comprises an asymmetrical composition with three vine-like tendrils rising from the base of the vase, and terminating in lush leaves. One is short; two longer vines rise up the side of the vase, the largest of which leans over the top of the bowl.
