Title Page and Goldsmith’s Designs for Boxes and Bottles
date: label: Date
content: late 17th–early 18th century
name: label: Designer
content: Masson, French, active late 17th and early 18th century
label: Print Maker
content: Masson, French, active late 17th and early 18th century
label: Publisher
content: Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page and ornament designs for goldsmith’s engravings for the use on gold boxes, powder boxes, portrait boxes, and perfume bottles featuring heraldry, arabesque and grotesque ornament, scrolling leaves, fleurons, scrolling acanthus leaves, masks (mascarons), diaper patterns, animals, flowers, birds, mythological creatures, sphynx, shells, cartouches, strapwork, fluting, wave running patterns, and gadrooning. The plate is numbered and signed with the publisher’s address.
place: label: made in
content: 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: 1921-6-430-1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on paper