Arabesque Ornament Designs
date: label: Date
content: 1749–61
name: label: Designer
content: Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722
label: Print Maker
content: Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
label: Publisher
content: Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Twelfth plate from a series of bifurcated arabesque/ grotesque panel designs with a different design on the left and right side of the plate. The ornament features the classical Greek and Roman goddess Rhea/ Cybele wearing her mural crown, seated in a carriage with lion at her feet and putti behind her, framed by an arch of rocks, supported by herms, surrounded by architectural elements, festoons of flowers, birds, fleurons, rinceaux, vases and baskets of fruit and flowers, foliage, cornucopia, a frieze, roundels, rosettes, bat wing motifs and diaper pattern. The plate is numbered and signed.
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: 1921-6-421-12
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper