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Artist and engraver Juste Nathan Boucher French
Printer Marguerite Caillou Chéreau French
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Plate 4 of a series of designs for vases. This design shows a vase with two children with fishtails reaching for a bucrane placed in the center of the vase.
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Title: Plate 4, from "New Book of Vases" (Nouveau Livre de Vases)
Artist and engraver:
Juste Nathan Boucher (French 1736–1782)
Printer:
Marguerite Caillou Chéreau (French, active Paris, 1714–57)
Date: 1755–67
Medium: Engraving
Dimensions:
Plate: 5 1/4 × 3 13/16 in. (13.3 × 9.7 cm)
Sheet: 6 5/8 × 4 5/16 in. (16.8 × 10.9 cm)
Classifications: Prints, Ornament & Architecture
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1954
Accession Number: 54.512.4(4)
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