Designs for Two Vertical Panels
date: label: Date
content: 1738–45
name: label: Designer
content: François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, active Germany, 1695 - 1768
label: Print Maker
content: Carl Albert von Lespilliez, German, 1723 - 1796
label: Publisher
content: François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, active Germany, 1695 - 1768
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Folio 3, plate 2 of series 6. Within rectangular framing lines, two rocaille designs for upright decorative panels. Panel at left: at bottom, a grotesque mask surrounded by decorative scrollwork. Above, an urn with two dolphin fountains, herms at either side. At top, two masks, the mouths of which emit fountains of water. Panel at right: at bottom, a grotesque mask surrounded by decorative scrollwork. Above, a fountain design with putti figures and swans. On garlands above, a herm and a satyr; a mask above them.
place: label: made in
content: Munich, Germany
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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: 1921-6-282-3
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bound print
label: Type
content: Bound print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraving on off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 35.2 x 22.7 cm (13 7/8 x 8 15/16 in.)