Key Plate (Escutcheon) Designs
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1665
name: label: Designer
content: Antoine Pierretz le jeune, French, active 1660-70
label: Publisher
content: François de Poilly, French, 1622 - 1693
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Two half designs for key plates or escutcheons decorated with scrolling acanthus leaves, foliate scrolls, rosettes, sprigs, rosettes, fleurons, terminal figures, birds, masks, shells, baskets and cornucopia of fruit and flowers, putti, dolphins, crown, arms and armor, Apollo’s head surrounded by sun rays, and a sphynx.
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: 1921-6-473-8
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper