"Vase reposant sur deux Sphinx adossés", plate 2 from the series Vasi...
Jean-Laurent Legeay, French, ca. 1710â86
1768, published 1770
Medium
architecture
Classification
architecture
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Gift of Whitney Warren
Accession Number
1958-136-1-n
About this artwork
Architectural fantasy. A framework of beams and posts/piers of a building without walls and roof. Tree branches and small bushes grow or project from the structure. In the foreground, at right, is a large scale mortar, placed on a horizontal pedestal. In the far distance, at left, two small scale figures are standing next to one of the posts/piers.