Neptune
date: label: Date
content: 1729–37
name: label: Designer
content: Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722
label: Print Maker
content: Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722
label: Print Maker
content: Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger, French, 1715–1790
label: Publisher
content: Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: An arabesque design for tapestries (door curtains) featuring the Classical Greek and Roman god Neptune seated on clouds in the center, framed by a canopy, with foliage, sails, nets, grotto, wave, and shell motifs, with a male figure blowing a shell below, and rococo ornament featuring rosettes, fleurons, rinceaux, masks, dolphins, and reeds. This is an incomplete earlier state of the fifth plate of the series before lettering.
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: 1921-6-420-8
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper