Flore
date: label: Date
content: 1729–37
name: label: Designer
content: Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722
label: Print Maker
content: Claude Gillot, French, 1673–1722
label: Publisher
content: Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: An arabesque design for tapestries (door curtains) featuring the standing Classical Greek and Roman goddess Flora in the center, with two female figures below on either side with trees, foliage and flowers, and rococo ornament, featuring rosettes, fleurons, rinceaux, festoons of flowers, masks, and shell motifs. This is a first state of the fourth plate of the series before lettering.
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: 1921-6-420-5
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper