Etui Designs
date: label: Date
content: 1771
name: label: Designer
content: Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798
label: Print Maker
content: Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798
label: Publisher
content: Jean-Baptiste Crépy, French, active 1753 – d. 1796
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Within a double-lined frame, two designs for tapered cylindrical etuis or small ornamental cases, possibly for containing needles, side-by-side. Decorated with ‘rocaille’ scrolls, bands, fleurons, flowers, palm leaves, laurel leaves, ribbons, shell and palmette motifs. Left etui: features cartouches with Apollo’s head surrounded by rays of sun and a military trophy, and a chestnut finial on the lid. Right etui: features cartouches with trophies of flowers and musical instruments, and a bird finial on the lid. Below each etui a shaded outline of their shapes with lower center. The plate is signed, and numbered.
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: 1921-6-369-4
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