Decorative Motifs
date: label: Date
content: 1580–1600
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle. A scrollwork escutcheon with a bearded mask. At bottom left a panel with two acanthus flowers, symmetrical to a disk motif. At center, an oblong with pointed plant motif over a drapery festoon of a hide. Below it are rampant lions on a grotesque frame motifs with their backs turned to a plint. At right, a painted plant motif with a tent circle with calices. On verso: a male and female satyr support with their heads baskets.
place: label: made in
content: Italy
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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: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-88-2613
objectType: label: Type
content: ornament
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Black chalk, pen and ink, bistre on laid paper. On verso: brush and dark brown watercolor washes on laid paper.
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 21.9 × 15.3 cm (8 5/8 in. × 6 in.)