Vase with Winged Memaid Figures as Handles

Identification and Creation

Object Number: R4372
People: Jacques-François-Joseph Saly, French (Valenciennes 1717 - 1776 Paris)
Title: Vase with Winged Memaid Figures as Handles
Other Titles: Series/Book Title: Vasa A Se Inventa Atq. Studii Causa Delin., plate 4
Former Title: Vase
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 1746
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/240494

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Etching on cream antique laid paper

Technique

Etching

Dimensions

image: 18.2 × 11.9 cm (7 3/16 × 4 11/16 in.)
sheet: 19 × 12.5 cm (7 1/2 × 4 15/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

inscription: lower left, in plate: J. Salÿ. Inv. et. Sulp.
inscription: lower right, in plate: 4

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: John Witt Randall, bequest; to Belinda Lull Randall, his sister, gift; to Harvard University, 1892

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Object Number: R4372
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/05/2019 - 05/02/2019

Verification Level

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