Orfevre Bijoutier
date: label: Date
content: mid- 18th–late 18th century
name: label: Designer
content: Louis Denis Fossier, French, 1744 – 1781
label: Print Maker
content: Robert Bénard, French, 1734–1772
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Plate with ten numbered designs for gold boxes and cane handles featuring neoclassical ornament – fluting, beads, waves, festoons of leaves, a cypher, and cupid/ putto with a bow and arrow. The plate is titled, 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: 1921-6-312-5
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper