Panel Design
date: label: Date
content: 1789
name: label: Designer
content: Claude-Louis Desrais, (French, 1746–1816)
label: Print Maker
content: Jacques Le Roy, French, 1739–1789?
label: Publisher
content: Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Fourth plate from a series of six plates of arabesque panel designs, featuring neo-classical ornament. A central putto stands under a roofed structure, decorated with flaming heart finials, titled Amori, in the center of the plate, above a basket of flowers with leaves, arabesque ornament featuring fleurons, birds, butterflies, flaming hearts, acanthus leaf ornament, peacock feathers, winged putti herms. Below, three female figures on clouds support the temple structure above. The plate is signed and numbered with an inscription in red ink along the left side.
place: label: made in
content: France
label: published 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: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1921-6-296-4
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on laid paper