Ornament Designs
date: label: Date
content: early 18th century
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: Four plates pasted on a sheet depicting various ornament designs with grotesque motifs including mythological creatures, sphynx, snakes, putti, male and female heads (busts) wearing helmets and hats, a cartouche, palm leaves, shields, quiver of arrows, vases, banner, foliate scrolls, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), and rosettes. The lower right plate is signed. The individual plates are linked to records 1921-6-411-71-74.
place: label: made in
content: France
label: published in
content: Paris, France
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1921-6-411-70
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper