Designs for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion, Baskets of Flowers, and a Frieze
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1660-70
name: label: Print Maker
content: Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686
label: Designer
content: Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686
label: Publisher
content: Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: An ornament print with a central design for a medallion or the lid of a circular watchcase with a scene depicting three seated figures, a baby, and a young child in a landscape. Two white women (or a woman and a long-haired man) sit to the left, facing a black woman holding a white baby in her lap, another child, to the left is leaning on a lamb. The figures sit within a landscape, a church and buildings in the background. Two winged putti in the background hold a basket above their heads. This is probably depicting a Biblical scene, either the Rest on the Flight into Egypt with the figures representing Mary, Joseph, Jesus, and possibly his nurse Salome; or Mary and her mother Anne, baby Jesus and the young Saint John the Baptiste, represented with his lamb. The design is flanked by two baskets of flowers and a frieze below featuring putti, cartouches, ribbons, leaves, and flowers. The plate is numbered and signed.
place: label: made in
content: France
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: 1921-6-529-3
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraving on laid paper