Design for a Vase (recto); Sketch of Small Vase (verso)

A pen and brown ink design for an elaborate classical urn, shown in front view on a tall pedestal. Twisted handles spring from the rim, a frieze of reclining putti runs around the bowl, and a fluted foot rests on a stepped base.

Look closer: A faint vertical pencil mark and small marks in the left margin of the sheet.

Artist

Jacques François Joseph Saly

Date

ca. 1752

Medium

Pen and brown ink over graphite (recto); graphite (verso)

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

2353 × 3558 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1948