Ornament Designs
date: label: Date
content: early 18th century
name: label: Designer
content: Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Ornament designs with grotesque motifs, including a section of a broken pediment with a central ewer, featuring rosettes, laurel leaves and ribbon molding, a cartouche on a draped textile, foliate scrolls, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), an eagle, and two putti/ fauns. In the upper right, a cartouche with an oval profile portrait framed by shell, fish scales, palm leaves, festoons of leaves, gadrooning and foliate scrolls. In the center left, a mascaron (mask) in profile of a bearded man with wings and palmette on his head. The plate is 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: 1921-6-411-59
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper