Object Details
- Designer
- Jean Elysée Puiforcat, French, 1897–1945
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Oval shaped teapot with flared sides drawn in plan and elevation, wide lip decorated on the top with a band indicated in yellow color pencil. rounded lid surmounted by a cylindeical finial decorated on either side with a circular boss, continuing in a band along the top of the lid toward handle indicated in brown ink and graphite. C-scroll handle decorated at the top with motif similar to finial indicated in brown ink and graphite. Body with applied reeded band which attaches handle to body. Raised on a tapering base decorated with two applied bands indicated in yellow color pencil. Underdrawing in graphite of teapot in golden section.
- Credit Line
- Gift of John Finguerra in memory of his brother Jim Finguerra
- 1935
- Accession Number
- 1995-164-67
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- metalwork
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and black, brown ink, yellow color pencil, graphite on cream tracing paper
- Dimensions
- 29.7 x 25 cm (11 11/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
- made in
- France
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1995-164-67
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq41715d11e-5ebd-4b6b-8122-d97a5d773554
