Ornament Designs
date: label: Date
content: ca.1670–ca.1700
name: 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 grotesques motifs, featuring strapwork, masks, herms, a bird, flowers, fruit, foliage, and fleurons. A narrow design to the left is framed by lines, with another wider design to the right. The plate is numbered and signed.
place: 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: 1921-6-238-1
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