Title Page
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
name: label: Designer
content: Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786
label: Publisher
content: Louis-Joseph Mondhare, French, 1734–1799
label: Print Maker
content: Louis-Sébastien Berthet, French, 1750 – 1812
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page for a series of vase designs. The title is lettered in the center framed within a cartouche decorated with beading, and scrolling leaves, with festoons of flowers and leaves, and a floral crown above. Vases with flowers, below on either side, decorated with neo-classical motifs, fluting, gadrooning, square and ring handles. The plate is signed with the publisher’s address below.
place: label: published in
content: Paris, France
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1921-6-394-1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on laid paper