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Designs for Ewers, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork)
René Boyvin, Pierre Milan1540–1560
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Fontainebleau school. Design for two ewers. On the left ewer, the Birth of Venus. On the right one, the Triumph of Neptune. Both are decorated with pearls, jewels and strapwork, crabs, frogs, lobsters, putti and grotesque masks.
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- Title: Designs for Ewers, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork)
- Creator: René Boyvin, French, 1525 - 1625, Pierre Milan, French, 1500 - 1557
- Date Created: 1540–1560
- Location Created: France
- Original Source: See this work of art on the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum website
- Medium: Engraving on laid paper
- Credit line: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
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