Box, Jewelry, and Seal Designs
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
name: label: Designer
content: Jean-Baptiste Fay, French, active 1765 – 1790s
label: Print Maker
content: Jean-Baptiste Fay, French, active 1765 – 1790s
label: Publisher
content: Louis-Joseph Mondhare, French, 1734–1799
label: Publisher
content: Pierre Jean, French, 1754–1829
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Third plate from a series of designs for jewelry, boxes, snuffboxes, rings, seals, cane handles and other small luxury objects. The plate includes fourteen designs for earrings, jewelry, boxes, lids, and seals decorated with neoclassical motifs and ornament. The decoration includes repeating patterns, fleurons, acanthus leaves, rosettes, scrolling foliage, scalloped diaper pattern, beads, chestnut, winged putto head, and a profile portrait with a military helmet. 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: 1921-6-304-3
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