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Fountain Design, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork)
René Boyvin1540–1560
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Fontainebleau school. Design for a metalwork fountain, the top decorated with children with tridents sitting on sea shells. Below, scenes of Acteon and Diana from Ovid’s Metamorphosis are interspaces with urinating putti. The base decorated with masks, garlands and alternating snails and turtles.
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- Title: Fountain 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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