2-721-265 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Pewter ewer, 1580-1600, (1881). Etching of a decorative jug designed by François Briot and made in France in the late 16th century. The relief design features fruit, masks, winged horses, satyrs, and female allegorical figures representing the Cardinal Virtues. From "The South Kensington Museum", a book of engraved illustrations, with descriptions, of the works of art in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London (formerly known as the South Kensington Museum). [Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London, 1881]