A Bowl with Flowers

A small ink and brush drawing shows a footed bowl heaped with clustered flowers and leaves, its lower body crosshatched with diagonal lines. The bowl rests on a short pedestal above a faint horizontal ground line, set on pale paper cut into an irregular shape. Brown wash softens the foliage, suggesting a tableware design study.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1700–1750

Medium

Pen and ink, brush and bistre, on paper

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

1901 × 904 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum