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Tureen Design, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork)
Pierre Milan, René Boyvin1540–1560
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Fontainebleau school. Design for a metalwork tureen heavily decorated with strapwork, pearls, cherub heads, putti and garlands of fruit. In the middle, a medallion showing Jupiter and Mercury with Philemon and Baucis.
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- Title: Tureen Design, 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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