Frieze with Rinceau
date: label: Date
content: 1775–80
name: label: Artist
content: Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The right half is shown; rinceau flanking the central motif, of which half is an escutcheon; a crouching lion biting a snake which in turn bites a child, forms a part of a trophy of arms.
place: label: Place
content: Paris, France
label: made in
content: 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: 1911-28-46
objectType: label: Type
content: ornament
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and black ink, traces of black chalk on white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 14.5 x 46.8 cm (5 11/16 x 18 7/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: mount: 20.6 x 49.1
label: Dimensions
content: Mat: 55.9 x 71.1 cm (22 x 28 in.)