Title Page
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1665
name: label: Designer
content: Antoine Pierretz le jeune, French, active 1660-70
label: Publisher
content: François de Poilly, French, 1622 - 1693
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page for a series of ironwork designs. The title is lettered on a banner above a wrought iron gate with two doors featuring grotesque and arabesque ornament. Topped with a winged terminal figure holding a basket of fruit and flowers above their head with their lower body in the form of scrolling acanthus leaves, below sphynx’s, cornucopias, moon faces, vases, fleurs-de-lys, and interlaced L’s. The doors include rosettes, shells, fleurons, sprigs, masks, vases, scrolling acanthus leaves, and interlaced L’s. The plate is numbered.
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: 1921-6-473-1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper