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Two Designs for Ewer-Shaped Ornaments
Franz Xaver Habermannca. 1750
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Two designs epitomizing the fantastical asymmetric rococo spirit, possibly to be produced in gold or silver. At left, a vase-like form decorated with shell motifs, acanthus leaves and c- and s-scrolls. At right, an ewer form decorated with shell, leave and c- and s-scrolls. Two auricular fragments are placed between the two objects.
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- Title: Two Designs for Ewer-Shaped Ornaments
- Creator: Franz Xaver Habermann
- Creator Lifespan: 1721/1796
- Date Created: ca. 1750
- Type: Print
- Rights: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Medium: Etching and engraving on white laid paper
- Provenance: Léon Decloux
- Paper Support: White laid paper
- Inscribed: On plate, lower left: F.X. Haberman, inv. et del.; lower center: No. 143.; lower right: Joh. Georg Hertel, exc. Aug. 4; lower left (vertical): 28
- Exhibitions: New York, NY - CHNDM, "Rococo: The Continuing Curve 1730-2008," March 7 - July 6, 2008.
- Dimensions: 40.7 x 23.3 cm (16 x 9 3/16 in.)
- Bibliography: Gail S. Davidson, "Ornament of Bizarre Imagination," in Sarah Coffin et. al, Rococo, The Continuing Curve, 1730-2008 (New York: Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, 2008), p. 68, fig. 42.
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