Designs for Scrollwork Escutcheons
date: label: Date
content: mid- 17th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical format sheet with designs for scrollwork escutcheons. Left row, top: a left half, ink, and a right half, chalk, pushed together. The latter shows a fruit festoon. Center: a left half, ink, and at right, chalk, ink. A mark is in the bottom center of the first one. Bottom and right half; a shell forms the field. Right row, top: a left half, with a hand on top. Bottom: a left half, the lower part of which stands in front of a pedestal, is united with a right half of a different design. A mark is in the center top of the former. A festoon connects one of the lateral scrolls with a spiral at the pedestal.
place: label: made in
content: Bologna, Italy
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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: Museum purchase from the Mary Hearn Greims Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1940-21-42
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Red chalk, pen and ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 24 × 19.4 cm (9 7/16 × 7 5/8 in.)