Floral Tailpiece
date: label: Date
content: 1762
name: label: Designer
content: Jean-Jacques Bachelier, French, 1724 - 1806
label: Engraver
content: Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809
label: Print Maker
content: Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French, 1730–1809
label: Publisher
content: Geneviève-Marguerite Chéreau, French, active 1755-1768, d.1782
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Third plate from the second series of tailpieces and fleurons originally designed for the 1755-1759 four-volume edition of the Fables de La Fontaine. A large fleurons or tailpiece made up of intertwined flowers, leaves and vines around a circular palm leaf, with a garland in the middle hanging from a tied ribbon. The plate is numbered and 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: 1921-6-234-9
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 26.9 x 21.3 cm (10 9/16 x 8 3/8 in.)