An Escutcheon
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1590
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle. A scrollwork escutcheon showing a female mask at top center, a satyr mask laterally, male mask between them. On verso: a seated woman reading and framed by a quatrefoil which forms the center of the panel with trefoils at bottom and on top. Plant scrolls and female masks facing each other as decoration. The upper panel is fasted by nails to the lower, slightly shorter one.
place: label: made in
content: 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: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-88-2609
objectType: label: Type
content: graphic design
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Black chalk, pen and ink, brush and bistre wash on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 22 × 14.6 cm (8 11/16 × 5 3/4 in.)