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Bound Print, Ornamental Vase Design
This is a Bound print. It was designed by François Boucher and print maker: A. Bouchet and published by Gabriel Huquier. It is dated ca. 1738 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is etching in red ink on white laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
Boucher’s bronze mount design for an antique jasper ewer incorporates the curvilinear movement and pastoral motifs characteristic of rococo style. A young boy reclines on rocks, shells, and flowers on the lid, a goat with a long tail decorates the handle, and acanthus and scroll motifs adorn the foot.
This object was
donated by
Advisory Council.
It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
- Print, Two Designs for Vase-Like Ornaments
- engraving on white laid paper.
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
- 1921-6-317-27
- Drawing, Design for an Ewer
- black and white chalk on beige laid paper .
- Gift of Ogden Codman.
- 1916-9-5
- Drawing, Design for a Ewer
- black and white chalk on brown paper.
- Gift of Ogden Codman.
- 1916-9-3
Our curators have highlighted 2 objects that are related to this one.
- Print, Pitcher with a Figure of Neptune, from "Insignae Ac Planè Novum Opis...
- etching on laid paper.
- Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. A. Murray Young.
- 1946-37-1
- Print, Ewer with Handle
- engraving on white laid paper.
- Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane.
- 1946-3-4
Its dimensions are
31.1 x 25.1 cm (12 1/4 x 9 7/8 in.)
It is signed
Etched in plate, lower right: A. Bouchet. sc.
It is inscribed
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, verso upper right [in 18th-century hand]: 2 [s.?], price of the series.
Cite this object as
Bound Print, Ornamental Vase Design; Designed by François Boucher (French, 1703–1770); Print Maker: A. Bouchet (French, active ca. 1730-1740); Published by Gabriel Huquier (French, 1695–1772); France; etching in red ink on white laid paper; 31.1 x 25.1 cm (12 1/4 x 9 7/8 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-245-12
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Rococo: The Continuing Curve 1730-2008.
