Design for a Rocaille Ornament
date: label: Date
content: ca.1839
name: label: Firm
content: Crace & Son, British, 1768 – 1899
label: Attributed to
content: Frederick Crace, English, 1779–1859
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Rocaille painted ornament, primarily gold and violet with roses. Other colors used in the ornament are pale pink and blue, sage, brown, and fuschia. The object has large s-curves and c-curves with floral sprays flowing down, up, and horizontally over the piece.
place: label: made in
content: England
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1948-40-186
objectType: label: Type
content: ornament
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and gouache, gold paint on dark blue wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 24.1 × 19.8 cm (9 1/2 × 7 13/16 in.)