Panel Designs of Grotesque Ornamentation
date: label: Date
content: 1711
name: label: Designer
content: Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711
label: Publisher
content: Jacques Thuret, French, 1669–1738
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Two plates of grotesque panel designs. The upper plate features strapwork and scrolls, as well as masks, small animals like squirrels and snails, masks, and sphinxes. The lower plate has figures, such as sphinxes, angels, satyrs, as well as baldachins, birds, and masks. Neither plate is signed, but the letter "L" is printed at the bottom of the upper plate.
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: 1921-6-201-25
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bound print
label: Type
content: Bound print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraving on laid paper