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Sacred Vase Designs

Elegant prints of decorative vases and urns, showcasing intricate designs and historical significance in decorative arts.

Garden vase with a frieze of dancing women, draughtsman: Abraham Storck, Aegidius Sadeler, 1645 - 1710, paper, pen, brush, h 183 mm × w 116 mm
Garden vase with a frieze of dancing women, draughtsman: Abraham Storck, Aegidius Sadeler, 1645 - 1710, paper, pen, brush, h 183 mm × w 116 mm
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Vase and canvases, Jacques Juillet, 1768 print An ornamented vase with flowers, cloths are draped all around. Paris paper etching vase ~ ornament
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Saly, Jacques Francois Joseph, Vasa a se inventa atq. studii causa delin. et incisa, Vase with two sphinxes and women's heads between garlands, This print is part of an album., ornament print, album sheet, print, prints, height 190 mm, width 127 mm, French, 1717-06-20 - 1776-05-04, print maker, printmaker, 1746 - 1746, paper, papier, etching, etchings, Work conception, after own design by
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Ornament Design. Date: 1777. Pen and ink, brush and watercolor, gouache, over graphite on laid paper. Museum: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
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Drawing of 17th century silver belonging to an album, draughtsman: anonymous, Amsterdam, c. 1725 - c. 1728, paper, drawing, h 356 mm × w 245 mm
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Design for a Coffee Urn ca. 1770-90 Anonymous, French, 18th century French This work is part of a collection of drawings for furniture, clocks, candelabra, etc. for decoration of the Chateau de Laeken (outside Brussels in the area formerly called Schoonenberg, now the Belgian Royal Palace). The designs were sent to Albert, Duke of Saxe-Teschen and the Archduchess Marie Christine, governors of Belgium from 1780-1790, from artisans in Paris, Vienna, and England.See 65.547.18b for a hand-written estimate for a repair to the object. Design for a Coffee Urn 345922
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Three basins up each other; Architectura Curiosa Nova. In a round basin is a second, shell-shaped basin on a small base. Herein is another pedestal of a third basin, consisting of three Tuscan columns, decorated with masks and lion heads. Two fish with monster heads are in the third basin. Leaf 62 from part III of a series consisting of 226 sheets, spread over four books, each with its own title sheet.
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Albrecht Altdorfer, Goblet with Pomegranate on the Knob, c 1520 1525 Goblet with Pomegranate on the Knob
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Amphora of Cervetri (Cære) representing a sacrifice Fraillery. still image. 1890. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Libations, Sacrifices, Mythology, Altars, Vases , To 499, Greece , Religion, Nike (Greek deity)
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Print, Design for a Vase; Print Maker: Benigno Bossi (Parma, 1727-ca. 1793); After Eurimond-Alexandre Petitot (Parma, 1727-1801); France; etching on laid paper
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Noordelijke Nederlanden, Bleyswijck, François van, Het Geuze-napje, Geuzennap, Northern Netherlands, Beggars' Bowl, Geuzennap., print, picture, historical object representation, prints, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 139 mm, width 99 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1671-05-24 - 1746-10-15, print maker, printmaker, 1730 - 1735, second quarter 18th century, paper, papier, etching, etchings
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Rijm print. Sheet with 13 performances of different nature whose words are rhymed, such as scaffold, cave and prohibition. Under every performance a caption in letterpress.
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Hurricane Shade. Dated: 1936. Dimensions: overall: 30 x 23 cm (11 13/16 x 9 1/16 in.). Medium: watercolor, graphite, and gouache on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: John Dana.
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Goblet. Dated: c. 1936. Dimensions: overall: 29.2 x 23 cm (11 1/2 x 9 1/16 in.). Medium: watercolor and graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Gertrude Lemberg.
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Drawing, Mounted Chinese Vase on a Pedestal, for the Music Room, Brighton, Royal Pavilion; Attributed to Robert Jones (British, active, early 19th century); England; brush and water color, graphite on white wove paper
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Copper engraving by Sebald Beham depicting the capital and base of a column, created in 1545.
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Jug from Nevers, France, with Italian-genre scene of faun and nymph under a tree beside a wheat field. Hand-finished chromolithograph from Ris Paquot's General History of Ancient French and Foreign Glazed Pottery, Chez l'Auteur, Paris, 1874.
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Vase and figurines. A vase on a pedestal, flanked by a pair of figurines, each depicting two lovers. The vase is oval-shaped with two small handles and rests on a pedestal foot. The body is painted with a reclining female figure and a putti inside a medallion. Above the medallion is a band with grape vines.. (Recto, mount) upper right, printed in black ink: "PLATE CXCII." Lower center, printed in black ink: "DERBY CHELSEA. / 372. VASE, WITH PAINTED MEDALLIONS. / 373. PAIR OF GROUPS OF LOVERS. / Lady C. Schreiber. italicized"
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Design for a Salt Cellar, Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819, Pen and ink, brush and wash on paper, Elevation of a salt cellar. The octagonal base is stepped and beveled. Upon this are two eagle caryatids with paw feet and scrolling wings. Between them they support the vessel, decorated with leaves at the bottom and gadrooning at rim. The cup is a breast-shaped mastos form., Italy, 1795-1805, tableware designs, Drawing, Drawing
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Sir David Wilkie, An Ornate Ewer (recto) An Ornate Ewer recto
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Decorative bottle from Rouen painted with a scene of a Roman rite. Hand-finished chromolithograph from Ris Paquot's General History of Ancient French and Foreign Glazed Pottery, Chez l'Auteur, Paris, 1874.
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Deign for a Covered Tureen, Johann Alois Seethaler, 1796 - 1835, Pen and black ink, brush and wash, graphite on white laid paper, The tureen is composed of two separate design schemes: the left side includes banding of calyxes and the handle terminates in a human head helmeted with a cornucopia. The base is edged in triangular-shaped scallops. On the right the design shows a vine arabesque meander and the handle is formed by an elephant's head, trunk upraised., Augsburg, Germany, Germany, 1825-35, metalwork, Drawing, Drawing
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Architectural Drawings 1800-1900 Anonymous, Italian, 19th century Italian. Architectural Drawings 390078
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Tweet antieke tripods, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1778 print Two antique tripods. Above: a tripod with winged and horned lions as legs. Below: a tripod with Frisian with seaimben and saters. Text above performance. Assignment in the end margin. Rome paper etching tripod
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A baroque water fountain. Engraving.
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Michael Trekur, Pitcher, c 1936 Pitcher
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Print, Design for a Title Page; Print Maker: Jean-Laurent Legeay (French, ca. 1710-86); France; etching on paper; 35.5 × 26.2 cm (14 in. × 10 5/16 in.)
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Gropius Martin (1824-1880), sketch album 2 (approx. 1870): decoration studies. Pencil, ink, mounted in album, 48.5 x 30 cm (including scan edges) Gropius Martin (1824-1880): Skizzenalbum 2: Dekorationsstudien
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Pitcher. Dated: c. 1936. Dimensions: overall: 29 x 22.8 cm (11 7/16 x 9 in.). Medium: watercolor, graphite, and gouache on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Michael Trekur.
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The dowager empress' carriage, Russia, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 709, Volume XXVII, September 27, 1856.
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Lamp in the Museo Napoli 1, terracotta lamp with ram's head and serpent found near Porta San Lorenzo 2, terracotta lamp with winged lion owned by Fiippo Luigi Gilii 3, and metal candelabra in the Kircherian Museum 4. Copperplate engraving by Pietro Ruga after an illustration by Lorenzo Rocceggiani from his own 100 Plates of Costumes Religious, Civil and Military of the Ancient Egyptians, Etruscans, Greeks and Romans, Franzetti, Rome, 1802.
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Design for a Pen and Ink Stand 19th century Anonymous, French, 19th century French. Design for a Pen and Ink Stand 355419
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Plate Six from Collection of Various Vases. Stefano della Bella; Italian, 1610-1664. Date: 1630-1648. Dimensions: 83 x 203 mm (image/sheet, cut within platemark). Etching on ivory laid paper. Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.
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Greek vase. William Chaffers (English, 1811 - 1892)
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Design for Mechanical Furniture: Canopy Bed, Pen and black ink, brush and watercolor on paper, A canopy tent bed surmounted by an urn. Underneath, a drawer for chamber pots, exposed. Bed decorated with batwing fan and bow, arrow and quiver motifs. Scale below., Germany, ca. 1805, furniture, Drawing, Drawing
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Picart, Bernard, Amsterdam, Vase flanked by birds with garlands in their beaks, verso - stamped, print, ornament print, book illustration, prints, engravings, height 81 mm, width 183 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1673-06-11 - 1733-05-08, print maker, printmaker, 1683 - 1733, fourth quarter 17th century, first quarter 18th century, second quarter 18th century, paper, etching, etchings, letterpress printing, Northern Netherlands, intermediary draughtsman
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Landscape with a ruin in the background and four ornamental vases in the foreground. On the front right-hand vase is a depiction of Neptune. Below in the margin a text in Latin, Landscape with ruin and vases, print maker: anonymous, Johan Teyler, Netherlands, 1688 - 1698, paper, etching, engraving, h 261 mm × w 184 mm
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King William I as a coffee pot, 1830, Anonymous, 1830 - 1831 print Cartoon on King William I after the loss of Belgium, November 1830. Caricature with the king's head in the form of a coffee pot with a lid in the form of a flattened crown on the head. With two -way caption. Belgium paper coffee-pot
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Vas Met Bucrania, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1778 print A vase with a frieze with bucrania and garlands. Text above performance. Assignment under presentation. paper etching vase ~ ornament. bucranium ~ ornament
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The Portland Vase. The Portland Vase. The neck is narrow and widens to an oval body, with two handles. The body of the vase is dark in color and features light-colored figures of a young woman reclining on a rock beneath a tree with one arm raised to rest her hand on her head. A young man sit on a rock to her left and a young woman sits on a rock on her right.. (Recto, mount) upper right, printed in black ink: "PLATE CLVI." Lower center, printed in black ink: "WEDGWOOD. / 306. THE PORTLAND VASE. / Geological Museum. italicized"
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Marches Pesaro e Urbino Urbino Museo del Duomo "Albani"0. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Post-medieval: Sculpture, paintings, panel painting, triptychs, polyptychs German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.
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Amsterdam, Visscher, Nicolaes (I), Aveele, Johannes Jacobsz van den, Garden vases, Two vases for the labyrinth of Zorgvliet, The vases both have a spherical body with cannelures. From a series of 7 sheets with two vases on each sheet on a balustrade with a view of the gardens of Zorgvliet in the background., print, ornamental print, prints, ornamental prints, height 127 mm, width 160 mm, 1655 - 1727-05-18, print maker, printmaker, 1665 - 1727, third quarter 17th century, fourth quarter 17th century, first quarter 18th century, second quarter 18th century, paper, etching, etchings, intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, Publication (Event), Publication, Northern Netherlands, 1618-01-25 - 1679, publisher
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Traditionals Bowls, cups and rhytons, Ancient Greece. Old 19th century engraved illustration, El Mundo Ilustrado 1880
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One from A Volume of Drawings and Prints, Rev. James Bulwer, 1794-1879, British, 1837, Pen and brown ink, graphite, watercolor on slightly textured, moderately thick, cream wove paper, Sheet: 17 × 13 7/16 inches (43.2 × 34.1 cm), architectural subject
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Nuremberg, Fürst, Paul, Gerhard, Christoph, Germany, Böckler, Georg Andreas, Architectura Curiosa Nova, Round basin with lion's head, The basin is decorated with lobes and attached around a column. The water flows into the basin through six pipes protruding from a lion's head. Sheet 4 from part III of a series consisting of 226 leaves, divided over four books, each with its own title page., print, ornament print, prints, ornament prints, height 270 mm, width 178 mm, Work conception, after a design by, 1664 - 1664, third quarter 17th century, paper, etching, etchings, print maker, printmaker, printer, Publication (Event), Publication, German, 1605 - 1666, publisher
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Tumbler. Dated: c. 1936. Dimensions: overall: 28.9 x 22.7 cm (11 3/8 x 8 15/16 in.). Medium: watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Charles Caseau.
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Fontein Bij Monte Giordano Palace Te Rome; Fountain in the 'Palace of Monte Giordano; Fonteinen te Rome; Collection of the main fountains of the Aclet City of Rome. Prent Maakt Deel Uit Van Een Album.
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Anthony Mark.
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Glass. Dated: 1936. Dimensions: overall: 29.9 x 23.5 cm (11 3/4 x 9 1/4 in.). Medium: watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: John Dana.
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The largest bell in the world, Kyoto, Japan. Old 19th century engraved illustration Travel to Japan by Aime Humbert from El Mundo en La Mano 1879
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Hans Memling (Netherlandish, active c. 1465-1494), Chalice of Saint John the Evangelist , c. 1470-1475, oil on panel
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Rome, Rossi, Giovanni Giacomo de', Italy, Bartolomeo, Maggi, Giovanni, Magesyn der Italiaense bouwen, Nova racolta degl'obelischi et colonne antiche, dellalma Citta di Roma con le sve dichiaratione, Roman monuments, mainly obelisks, Colonna detta Milliario Aureo, De Milliarium Aureum, The Milliarium Aureum (the Golden Milestone) was a Roman milestone on the Roman Forum in Rome, which marked the point where all Roman roads would begin. Text in Italian and Latin in the lower margin, in a cartouche and on the column. The print is part of an album., print, album leaf, prints, height 211 mm, width 155 mm, Italian, 1566 - 1618, print maker, 1651 - 1651, paper, etching, Work conception, after a design by, Publication (Event), Publication, 1627 - 1691, publisher
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Golden Zevenarmig Kandelaar or Menora, François Van Bleyswijck, 1728 print Golden seven -armed candlestick or Menora. The margin entitled under the show is cut loose from the magazine. print maker: Leidenpublisher: The Hague paper etching / engraving 'menorah', golden seven-branched candlestick, kept in the Tabernacle