Title Page
date: label: Date
content: 1737–38
name: label: Designer
content: Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742
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: Title page for a series of pedestal designs, with three designs. The pedestals feature rococo motifs – masks (mascarons), shells, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), fleurons, rosettes, carved moldings, running patterns, and cartouches. A lidded vase with snake handles and gadrooning on the left pedestal, a sculpted bust of a woman on the center pedestal and a kneeling nude figure of a man on the right pedestal. The title is lettered on the body of the central pedestal. 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: 1921-6-365-1
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