Panel Design (Left Plate)
date: label: Date
content: ca.1734-49
name: label: Designer
content: Bellay, French, active from 1734
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: A design for an ornamental panel, pasted to the left of another design. The design features rococo and chinoiserie (in the Chinese style) motifs with an ornately decorated frame featuring c-scrolls, fleurons, shells, sprigs, feathers, leaves, rinceaux, birds and a fountain in the foreground. In the center there are two figures seated within a fantastical landscape with only a couple of trees, a vase, and part of the ground and leaves depicted, the rest of the background is blank with a hanging plinth or platform and a festoon of fleurons. 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: 1921-6-490-12
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
label: Dimensions
content: 24.5 × 30.8 cm (9 5/8 × 12 1/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 21 × 11 cm (8 1/4 × 4 5/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 19.7 × 9.8 cm (7 3/4 × 3 7/8 in.)