Title Page
date: label: Date
content: 1736
name: label: Designer
content: François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755
label: Print Maker
content: Antoine Aveline, French, 1691 – 1743
label: Publisher
content: François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755
label: Publisher
content: Antoine Aveline, French, 1691 – 1743
label: Dedicatee
content: Alexis II Madeleine-Rosalie de Châtillon, French, 1690 – 1754
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page for a series of ‘chinoiserie’ (European decorative arts and architectural style inspired by fanciful ideas of China and East Asia) ornament prints. The title, dedication, and date are lettered in the center of a rocaille cartouche, topped with a male figure with four arms, a crowned coat of arms, the cross of the Holy Spirit, spears with fleurs-de-lys flags, palm leaves, ermine, and a vase. The cartouche features c-scrolls, fluting, shell, feather, and scrolling leaves (rinceaux). The plate is numbered and signed.
place: label: published in
content: Paris, France
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
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: 1921-6-366-8
objectType: label: Type
content: ornament
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
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 23.3 x 17.8 cm (9 3/16 x 7 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 31.9 x 23.5 cm (12 9/16 x 9 1/4 in.)