Ornament Design
date: label: Date
content: 1716-19
name: label: Designer
content: Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731
label: Print Maker
content: Honoré Blanc, French, active 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Ornament design featuring grotesque motifs with a central seated male figure wearing a helmet and holding a spear surrounded by spears with flags, quiver of arrows, and a shield in a niche decorated with a canopy and pilasters, and draped textiles held up by flying putti. The central niche on a large base flanked by arms, quivers of arrows, shields, spears with textiles, griffins, flanking herms, with putti, cartouches, mascarons (masks), shells, palm leaves, festoons of leaves, and scrolling leaves (rinceaux). 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: 1921-6-411-31
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper