Design for an Inkstand
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Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Lefebvre Manufactory, Tournai
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Rectangular black base supports a box, drawer in open position (at right). Box decorated with center mask flanked by stylized leaf motifs. On top of box, a crouching black figure, two arrows at his back, reaching towards a classical vase, a flat circular bowl at right.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
- 1805–1820
- Accession Number
- 1931-64-155
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Brush and watercolor, black wash, graphite, on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 25.6 × 39.9 cm (10 1/16 × 15 11/16 in.)
- made in
- Belgium
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1931-64-155
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq48366440e-e6d4-4ab3-a7c9-27f12bb8365d
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