Four Tailpiece Designs
date: label: Date
content: 1759–80
name: label: Designer
content: Jacques de Sève, French, active 1742 – 1788
label: Publisher
content: Louis-Joseph Mondhare, French, 1734–1799
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Four individual designs for tailpieces. Top left: Two putto fighting with daggers, above a putto with snakes as hair, holding two snakes and a torch looking down at the fighting pair. Below a central cartouche with rococo ornament, scrolling acanthus leaves, shell motifs, arms and armor and snakes. Top right: a putto seated under a canopy with a half-moon finial, with turquerie (in the Turkish style) style motifs, incense burners and two standing figures. Below a central rococo cartouche with scrolling acanthus leaves and c-scroll motifs. Lower left: a cartouche with a trophy of arms and armor. Lower right: a trophy of turquerie style arms and armor.
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: 1921-6-288-6
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