Ornament Designs
date: label: Date
content: ca.1670–ca.1700
name: label: Print Maker
content: Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711
label: Designer
content: Jean Bérain, the elder, French, 1640 – 1711
label: Print Maker
content: Jean Bérain, the elder, French, 1640 – 1711
label: Designer
content: Jean Bérain the Younger, French, 1674 – 1726
label: Print Maker
content: Jean Bérain the Younger, French, 1674 – 1726
label: Publisher
content: Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Ornament designs with grotesque and arabesque motifs, featuring a central female figure in profile, wearing an ornamental helmet with feathers, possibly Athena. Two separate designs for ornament in the upper center and center right of the plate, featuring fleurons, herms, masks, scrolling foliage, and a bird. In the upper left, a head in profile, with exaggerated facial features. The plate is numbered and signed.
place: 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: 1921-6-238-3
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on laid paper