Two Ornament Designs
date: label: Date
content: ca.1660–1713
name: label: Designer
content: Nicolas Pierre Loir, French, 1624 - 1679
label: Print Maker
content: Nicolas Pierre Loir, French, 1624 - 1679
label: Publisher
content: Pierre Mariette II, French, 1634 - 1716
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Two plates of ornament designs printed on a single sheet, one above the other. The upper plate features a vase of flowers, fruit and foliate branches on a plinth flanked by female torsos morphing into scrolling leaves, a festoon of flowers, mask (mascaron), ribbons, foliate scrolls, and scrolling leaves (rinceaux). The lower plate features a roundel profile portrait, flanked by winged women morphing into scrolling leaves, festoon of leaves, a mask (mascaron), shell, cartouche of a female figure, and scrolling leaves (rinceaux). The plates are signed and 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: 1921-6-333-50
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on paper