Drawing for a Rocaille Escutcheon
date: label: Date
content: 1740–60
name: label: Designer
content: François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, active Germany, 1695 - 1768
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle with the general outline of a harp, a bust of a girl and a shell are in the upper left corner. An upper field consists of a shell on a stalactite ground. A lower irregular field looks as if cut out. Reverse: three concentric circles.
place: label: designed in
content: Paris, France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Erskine Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-57-937
objectType: label: Type
content: ornament
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Black and red crayon on paper
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 27 x 20.3 cm (10 5/8 x 8 in.)