Design for a Bowl
Unknown Maker
Horizontal rectangle. Design for a bowl, supported by scrolls springing from four female half-figures (three are visible) which carry festoons in their raised and backwards-turned hands. The blue bowl has a metal rim in architectural form.
Credit: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
c. 1820
Pen and sepia ink, brush and blue, gray watercolor, graphite on light green-gray paper
1938-88-679
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020
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