Ornament Designs
date: label: Date
content: early 18th century
name: label: Designer
content: Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731
label: Publisher
content: Nicolas Gautrot, French, 16?? – 1739
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Ornament designs with a central vertical panel and four small ornamental motifs in the corners (vases on brackets). The designs feature grotesque motifs including mascarons (masks), griffins, herms, birds, canopy, oval profile portraits, incense burner, flaming torches, vase of fruit and flowers, vases, cartouches, festoons of leaves, shells, palmettes, palm leaves, gadrooning, fluting, fleurons, foliate scrolls, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), and diaper rosette pattern. The plate is signed.
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: 1921-6-411-68
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper