Drawing, Design for a Covered Soup Tureen

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Drawing, Design for a Covered Soup Tureen

This is a Drawing. It was company: Companie des Arts Français and designed by André Mare and Louis Süe and from the office of Süe et Mare. We acquired it in 1992. Its medium is graphite, blue color pencil on wove paper, laid down. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This graphite drawing could have been made as a document for designers or as a fabrication drawing against which artisans would have checked the finished mold-made object before firing. The shading articulating the flutes, pinecone, and leaves emphasizes the powerful, spherical form.

A three-part wall elevation of a wood-paneled room with a shallow, domed-ceiling. The central section is formed by a double door decorated with scroll-shaped knobs and a pair of narrow hinges bordered by fluted pilasters. Two half-pilasters mark the ends of the wall, right and left. Stylized vases with flowers form the capitals of each pilaster. The three wall sections are divided horizontally in two parts. Going vertically from the bottom, above a wood molding the wall is composed of three square wood panels. Above these is a frieze made of carved wood decorations. A military escutcheon composed of flags tied with a ribbon between two stylized cornucopias with flowers fills the area above the central doors. Two garlands with draperies fill each of the side sections. Above the frieze is a four-part cornice; the lower two sections are divided by a narrow bead motif; the upper-most section is filled with a scalloped ribbon motif. Above the cornice, a shallow half-ellipse indicates the domed ceiling in section.

Drawing, Wall Elevation of a Salon, ca. 1925
graphite, pen and ink, brush and wash on paper.
Museum purchase through gift of George A. Hearn.
1992-70-1

Drawing, Garden Recess with Pond and Statue

Drawing, Garden Recess with Pond and Statue
pen and black ink, some scraping, graphite on off-white wove paper.
1991-58-8

A floral garland draped in swags and encircling a central clock is suspended in the upper part of a doorway, window, or mantlepiece. Stylized palm(?) leaves fill the area on either side and above the clock and join the garland at the two sides ending in a stylized drapery. The decoration is bordered on three sides by a double molding. The clock numbers are only lightly suggested.

Drawing, Design for Woodwork Decor, 1922
graphite on cream heavy wove paper.
Museum purchase through gift of George A. Hearn.
1992-70-4

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Object ID #18640849
graphite, blue color pencil on wove paper.
1992-70-2

Overall pattern of wavy vining foliage, with intermittent bands of flowers or berries. Printed in mauve and yellow ocher on white ground.

Sidewall (France), 1918–23
machine-printed on paper.
Museum purchase from General Acquisition Endowment Fund.
2003-9-1

Object ID #18421241
graphite, blue crayon on tracing paper.
Gift of the Estate of Agnes M. Carpenter.
1958-133-1

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Covered Soup Tureen; Designed by Louis Süe and André Mare; France; graphite, blue color pencil on wove paper, laid down; 1992-70-3

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Making Design.

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Accession Number 1992-70-3
Object ID 18640851