Four Left Halves of Escutcheons
date: label: Date
content: 1692–99
name: label: Artist
content: Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle.
label: Description
content: Recto: Four left halves of escutcheons decorated with scrolls, leaves and surmounted by crowns. One shows a half-female-half-lion, another a head over a crescent and spear-head.
label: Description
content: Verso: Interlacing pattern of band-work, probably intended to be carried out in marble or wood flooring. The ground is indicated in shading, perhaps a suggestion for Suite XIV, plate 1.
label: Description
content: One sheet of paper drawn on recto and verso, mounted onto an album page with window cutout to see verso.
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: Museum purchase through gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1960-102-12
objectType: label: Type
content: albums (bound) & books
label: Object Name
content: Album page
label: Type
content: Album page
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pencil, pen and brown ink with grey wash, partial framing line in red chalk
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 142 × 212 cm (55 7/8 in. × 6 ft. 11 7/16 in.)