Design for a Water Urn with Stand, Joseph Anton Seethaler II, German, 1799–1868, Pen and black ink, brush and black, gray wash on wove paper, On circular plinth with four feet (three visible), a sphere, top section of which serves as cover and topped by Cupid in a chariot drawn by a snail. Supported by curved poles with lion feet and lion heads with wings. Spout starts from a dolphin's head which has a human face and which tops two bodies upon which two girls sit. Underneath are three blacksmiths around an anvil which would have been intended as a receptacle for spirits., Augsburg, Germany

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