Arabesque Design
date: label: Date
content: 1788
name: label: Designer
content: Etienne de Lavallée, French, 1735 – 1802
label: Print Maker
content: Laurent Guyot, French, 1756 - 1808
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical arabesque ornament design featuring classical motifs. In the center a fantastical fountain, its base decorated with mythological creatures, male figures, masks, birds, and acanthus leaf motifs with hanging festoons of leaves and fleurons. On either side of the base, sphynx with water shooting out of their mouths. Above the basin two putti with water pouring out of their mouths, standing around a fluted vase decorated with a mask and the head of apollo above with foliage, and basket of fruit above its head, with scrolling acanthus leaves, rosettes, and fleurons ornament. Two birds drink from the basin, perched on either side. Two peacocks perched on a horizontal line above the head of apollo, with hanging floral motifs. Two birds perched above in the center within the leafy foliage. The plate is signed and numbered.
place: label: made in
content: France
label: published in
content: Paris, France
label: designed in
content: Rome, Italy
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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: 1921-6-335-6
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and aquatint on laid paper