Arabesque Ornament 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
label: Publisher
content: Laurent Guyot, French, 1756 - 1808
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Arabesque ornament design featuring a lidded vase, with festoons of flowers above. Below a vase decorated with female figures on the lid, putti and scrolling acanthus leaves on the body, with mermaids as the foot of the vase, sitting on a base. The base is on a roughly cut stone decorated with a putto with scrolling acanthus leaves and rosettes for legs, pouring liquid over the paw of a mythological creature, part goat, part lion with wings, possibly a Chimera or Griffin. The plate is numbered and signed.
place: label: made in
content: France
label: designed in
content: Rome, Italy
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: 1921-6-336-6
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Aquatint and etching on laid paper