Ornamental Design with Caryatid Figure Standing on Stool and Holding a Bowl; Puttis on the Sides Hold Drapery and Support Base with an Eagle; on the Right Side Decorative Figures with Acanthus surmounted by Flowing.

1762–1844

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk on pale blue gray prepared paper
Dimensions: 9-11/16 x 6 in. (24.6 x 15.2 cm)
Collection no.: 61.693
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison. Ornamental Design with Caryatid Figure Standing on Stool and Holding a Bowl; Puttis on the Sides Hold Drapery and Support Base with an Eagle; on the Right Side Decorative Figures with Acanthus surmounted by Flowing.. Giuseppe Bernardino Bison; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Mrs. David F. Seiferheld, 1961. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Ornamental Design with Caryatid Figure Standing on Stool and Holding a Bowl; Puttis on the Sides Hold Drapery and Support Base with an Eagle; on the Right Side Decorative Figures with Acanthus surmounted by Flowing. — Giuseppe Bernardino Bison. 1762–1844.

Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk on pale blue gray prepared paper. Dimensions: 9-11/16 x 6 in. (24.6 x 15.2 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Gift of Mrs. David F. Seiferheld, 1961.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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