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Covered Tureen
Johann Alois Seethaler1825–35
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
The tureen is composed of two separate design schemes: the left side includes banding of calyxes and the handle terminates in a human head helmeted with a cornucopia. The base is edged in triangular-shaped scallops. On the right the design shows a vine arabesque meander and the handle is formed by an elephant's head, trunk upraised.
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Details
- Title: Covered Tureen
- Creator: Johann Alois Seethaler
- Creator Lifespan: 1796/1835
- Date Created: 1825–35
- Physical Dimensions: w560 x h400 cm
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Medium: Pen and black ink, brush and wash, graphite on white laid paper
- Provenance: Leon Decloux
- Paper Support: White laid paper
- Markings: Marks: C & I HONIG (similar to Heawood 3344)
- Inscribed: in pen and red ink, lower right: No. 35
- Dimensions: Sheet: 40 x 56 cm (15 3/4 x 22 1/16 in.)Mat: 40.6 x 55.9 cm (16 x 22 in.)
- Bibliography: Silverware Alain Gruber (New York: Rizzolo, l982), p. 147, no. 192
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