Ring, Cane Handles and Seal Designs
date: label: Date
content: 1771
name: label: Designer
content: Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798
label: Print Maker
content: Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798
label: Publisher
content: Jean-Baptiste Crépy, French, active 1753 – d. 1796
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Within a double-lined frame, in the upper plate two cane handle designs, ornamented with fluting, garlands of flowers, and laurel leaves, bands, ribbons, ‘rocaille’ scrolls. The left cane handle is topped with a rosette and shell motifs and the right cane handle with a bird, flowers, and ‘rocaille’ scrolls. Between the two cane handles, a design a ring, possibly with an intaglio engraving depicting figures within a landscape. Below the ring another cane handle decorated with ‘rocaille’ scrolls, shell, flowers, birds, fleurons, cartouches, and scale motifs. Left of cane handle, a flat seal with a thin handle, with a hoop at the top, decorated with ‘rocaille’ scrolls and gadrooning. Right of the cane handle, a seal fob decorated with a star, ribbon, ‘rocaille’ scrolls and fleurons. The plate is numbered, signed, and dated.
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: 1921-6-369-11
objectType: 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