L'Escarpolette
date: label: Date
content: 1789
name: label: Designer
content: Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Panel with an incomplete design showing a symmetrical arrangement of elaborate suspended medallions, with festoons and ribbons, and a swinging female figure. Beneath her are two draped female figures that form two elaborate scrolls. Below, a crest supports rural farm scene of a rooster, hens with chicks and rabbits. Design inspired by the painting L'Escarpolette by Jean Honore Fragonard.
place: label: made in
content: Jouy, France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase from Au Panier Fleuri Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1957-51-3-a
objectType: label: Type
content: printed, dyed & painted textiles
label: Object Name
content: Textile
label: Type
content: Textile
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: cotton Technique: copperplate printed