Cartouche Design
date: label: Date
content: early 18th century
name: label: Designer
content: Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731
label: Print Maker
content: Honoré Blanc, French, active 18th century
label: Publisher
content: Nicolas Gautrot, French, 16?? – 1739
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for an asymmetrical cartouche with putti holding a draped textile with passementerie and tassels and a helmet topped with a sphynx. The cartouche is framed by scrolling leaves, fleurons, shells, mascaron (mask), palm leaves, and sitting on a pedestal or base with an oval profile portrait of a women with a fish scale pattern, and a festoon of leaves, with two incense burners on either side. 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: 1921-6-411-51
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper