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Vases

Etching
1548-49 (Printed)
Artist/Maker
Du Cerceau, Jacques Androuet (I) (Printmaker)
Place of origin
Orléans (Printed)

Design for a ewer, decorated with festoons and vases, and with a handle terminating in an animal's hoof resting on a mask.


Object details

Categories
Ornament Prints
Prints
Designs
Object type
Etching
TitleVases (series title)
Materials and techniques
Etching
Printing Ink
Etching
Brief description
Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau. Design for a ewer. French, mid 16th century.
Physical description
Design for a ewer, decorated with festoons and vases, and with a handle terminating in an animal's hoof resting on a mask.
Dimensions
  • Height: 12.7cm
  • Width: 6.4cm
Styles
Late Renaissance
Mannerist
Object history
From a suite of 49 plates, designs for ewers, urns, amphoras and vases, known as 'Vases'.
Associated object
E.486-1911 (Impression)
Bibliographic references
  • Guilmard, D. Les Maîtres Ornemanistes, Paris, 1880-1881, 11.
  • Geymüller, H. von Les Du Cerceau, leur vie et leur oeuvre (Paris: Librairie de l'Art, 1887) p. 321.
  • Linzeler, A. and Jean Adhémar. Inventaire du fonds français; graveurs du seizième siècle (Paris: M. Le Garrec; Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1932-1935, 1938): vol. 1, pp. 64-65.
  • Guillaume, J., P. Fuhring and V. Auclair [et al.] Jacques Androuet du Cerceau : 'un des plus grands architectes qui soient jamais trouvés en France' Paris. c. 2010, pp. 308.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1923, London: Board of Education, 1925.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1204-1923

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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