Arabesque Ornament Designs
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
name: label: Designer
content: Jean-Baptiste Fay, French, active 1765 – 1790s
label: Print Maker
content: Jean-Baptiste Fay, French, active 1765 – 1790s
label: Publisher
content: Louis-Joseph Mondhare, French, 1734–1799
label: Publisher
content: Pierre Jean, French, 1754–1829
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Four horizontal designs for ornamental friezes with repeating patterns featuring arabesque motifs. The designs include roundels with profile portraits, lyre’s, guitars, festoons of flowers and beads, rosettes, scrolling feathers, torches, baskets of flowers, terminal figures, putti heads with wings, horns, ribbons, and birds. 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: 1921-6-306-5
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper