Ornament Design
date: label: Date
content: 1736
name: label: Designer
content: François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755
label: Print Maker
content: Antoine Aveline, French, 1691 – 1743
label: Publisher
content: François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755
label: Publisher
content: Antoine Aveline, French, 1691 – 1743
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A chinoiserie (European decorative arts and architectural style inspired by fanciful ideas of China and East Asia) ornament print with a fantastical bird or dragon in a landscape. Rocaille ornament in the center of a landscape featuring a cartouche, c-scrolls, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), a mask (mascaron), shells, fluting, and batwing motifs, with festoons of flowers and leaves. Clouds in the sky and foliage on the ground and in the background. The plate is numbered and signed.
place: 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: 1921-6-366-7
objectType: label: Type
content: ornament
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: Platemark: 23.3 x 17.8 cm (9 3/16 x 7 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 31.9 x 23.5 cm (12 9/16 x 9 1/4 in.)