Ornament Design
date: label: Date
content: 1716-19
name: label: Designer
content: Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731
label: Print Maker
content: Honoré Blanc, French, active 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Ornament design with a central vase on a plinth and a base with putti/fauns playing flutes framed by canopies on either side. The ornament features grotesque motifs, mascarons (masks), cartouches, griffins, profile portrait, figures, draped, hanging textiles, tassels, vases of flowers, palm leaves, wings, shells, festoons of leaves, fleurons, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), foliate scrolls, fluting, rosettes, and ram heads. The plate is 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: 1921-6-411-29
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper