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Plate 10, Livre de vases (Book of Vases)

Gabriel Huquier, François Boucher1738–72

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Folio 10, plate 10 of a series of 12. Design for a curving vase influenced by shell forms to be executed in metal, placed on a pedestal. Two figures resting upon the body’s curves. At left, a standing satyr peers into the vase, his head holding the lid open. At right, a seated nude woman at the handle.

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