Title Page
date: label: Date
content: 1744–56
name: label: Print Maker
content: Marie Michelle Blondel, French, active mid 18th century
label: Publisher
content: Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page for a series of 25 vases from gardens at Versailles, Trianon and Marly. The text is lettered within an arched trellis with climbing foliage. The top of the arch is decorated with C-scroll and acanthus ornament with a ram’s head and a small tree above. The sides of the trellis are decorated with herms supporting small potted plants. The bottom of the trellis morphs into c-scroll, acanthus, and floral ornament, with a fish scale pattern, and a lidded vase on a socle. Three putti decorate the vase with a garland of flowers.
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: 1921-6-475-1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper