Design for an Apparatus for Boiling Water, Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868, Pen and black ink, brush and gray, black wash on paper, Front view. Ovoidal plinth. Two scrolls topped by lion heads hold the body which is shaped as a part of an egg. The bottom section of the cover is surrounded by a kind of railing; the top section shows cut out quatrefoils. A tripod censer on top. The spout starts from a mask. Underneath: a receptacle for spirits consisting of an egg shape and the foreparts of crouching dragons., Augsburg, Germany, ca. 1810, metalwork, Drawing

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