R11406: Vase Decorated with Grotesque Face and Two Triton Cherubs

Identification and Creation

Object Number

R11406

People

Adrian Zingg, Swiss (St. Gall, Switzerland 1734 - 1816 Leipzig, Germany)
After Jacques-François-Joseph Saly, French (Valenciennes 1717 - 1776 Paris)

Title

Vase Decorated with Grotesque Face and Two Triton Cherubs

Other Titles

Series/Book Title: Adrian Zingg's Kupferstichwerk
Former Title: Vase

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1805

Culture

Swiss

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/246990

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Engraving on cream antique laid paper

Technique

Engraving

Dimensions

plate: 18.8 × 12.5 cm (7 3/8 × 4 15/16 in.)
sheet: 21.9 × 14.2 cm (8 5/8 × 5 9/16 in.)
mount: 34.2 × 28.3 cm (13 7/16 × 11 1/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: lower left, in plate: I. Salÿ inv.
• inscription: lower right, in plate: A. Zingg fc.

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

R11406

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Exhibition History

• Eighteenth Century European Ceramics, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/02/2005 - 06/09/2008
• 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/05/2019 - 05/02/2019

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