Arabesque Design
date: label: Date
content: 1788
name: label: Designer
content: Etienne de Lavallée, French, 1735 – 1802
label: Print Maker
content: Laurent Guyot, French, 1756 - 1808
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical arabesque ornament design featuring neoclassical motifs, a vase or basin with intertwined snakes as its base, flanked by winged mermaids with vases of flowers on their heads, and scrolling acanthus leaf, fleurons, rosettes and festoons of flowers and leaves with a roundel above with three classically dressed figures. Below, a snake handled lidded vase with the winged head of Apollo and a hanging festoon of leaves. The plate is numbered.
place: label: made in
content: France
label: published in
content: Paris, France
label: designed in
content: Rome, Italy
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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: 1921-6-335-7
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and aquatint on laid paper