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: Arabesque ornament design with neoclassical motifs. In the center, an ornamental lidded vase, featuring mermaids at the foot, with a body decorated with scrolling acanthus leaves and terminal putti figures. The lid features three seated women with a putto and flowers. The vase sits on a base, resembling roughly cut stone decorated with a winged putto with its lower half as scrolling acanthus leaves and rosettes and a winged lion with a goat’s head and rosette tail. Above the vase, a festoon of flowers, scrolling acanthus leaves and a lidded vase. The plate is signed and 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: 1921-6-335-12
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