Suite des Vases tirée du cabinet de Monsieur du Tillot Marquis de Felino (Suite of Vases from the collection of the Monsieur du Tillot, Marquis of Felino), Benigno Bossi; Ennemond Alexandre Petitot

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Benigno Bossi; Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, Suite des Vases tirée du cabinet de Monsieur du Tillot Marquis de Felino (Suite of Vases from the collection of the Monsieur du Tillot, Marquis of Felino)
Benigno Bossi; Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, Suite des Vases tirée du cabinet de Monsieur du Tillot Marquis de Felino (Suite of Vases from the collection of the Monsieur du Tillot, Marquis of Felino)
Benigno Bossi , Ennemond Alexandre Petitot
Suite des Vases tirée du cabinet de Monsieur du Tillot Marquis de Felino (Suite of Vases from the collection of the Monsieur du Tillot, Marquis of Felino)
1764
Benigno Bossi
1727–1792
Ennemond Alexandre Petitot
1727–1801
Suite des Vases tirée du cabinet de Monsieur du Tillot Marquis de Felino (Suite of Vases from the collection of the Monsieur du Tillot, Marquis of Felino), 1764
Where object was made: Italy
Material/technique: etching
Credit line: Museum purchase
Accession number: 1971.0053
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Archive Label 2003: Artists of the mid-18th century drew ornamental vases or urns as a side-line. Vase surfaces provided ground for the fertile imagination of Petitot, architect to the court of Parma. Some of his vase designs, the more classical ones, were actually carved out of stone and used on balustrades and in other architectural elements of court buildings he planned. Other vase designs were bizarre and eccentric. Beningno Bossi crisply and meticulously etched Petitot’s designs. Several of the etchings were assembled in book form and dedicated to Guillame-Leon du Tillot, marquis de Felino, first minister of the Parma court and patron to Petitot and Bossi. The Spencer Museum’s copy of this book, one of the rare complete sets in existence, is opened to a Petitot design that incorporates a tortoise. He cleverly uses the shell, tail, and head of the reptile as functional vessel elements and harmoniously completes the design by fashioning six smooth faceted sides that echo its shell.