Ornament and Panel Designs
date: label: Date
content: ca.1670–ca.1700
name: label: Designer
content: Jean Bérain, the elder, French, 1640 – 1711
label: Print Maker
content: Jean Bérain, the elder, French, 1640 – 1711
label: Designer
content: Jean Bérain the Younger, French, 1674 – 1726
label: Print Maker
content: Jean Bérain the Younger, French, 1674 – 1726
label: Publisher
content: Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Two plates of ornament designs featuring arabesques and grotesques motifs printed on a single page. Plate 7 to the left, includes two pairs of panels. The upper panels are framed by a running egg pattern, strapwork masks, acanthus leaves and shell motifs, with the crowned head of apollo in the center above a lyre, with quivers of arrows, ribbons, and a globe. The designs in each panel vary slightly but are similar. The lower panels are framed with similar motifs and feature a crowned twisted snake surrounded by sun rays, above incense stands with cornucopias. Plate 8, to the right, features two ornamental helmet designs, a grotesque cartouche, with a mask, and scrolling foliage. And to the right a vertical ornament design featuring scrolling foliage, masks, rosettes, and animal legs. The plates are numbered and plate 8 is signed.
place: label: published in
content: Paris, 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: 1921-6-238-16
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