Ornament and Panel Designs
date: label: Date
content: ca.1670–ca.1700
name: label: Designer
content: Jean Bérain, the elder, French, 1640 – 1711
label: Print Maker
content: Jean Bérain, the elder, French, 1640 – 1711
label: Designer
content: Jean Bérain the Younger, French, 1674 – 1726
label: Print Maker
content: Jean Bérain the Younger, French, 1674 – 1726
label: Publisher
content: Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Two plates of vertical ornament designs featuring arabesques and grotesques motifs printed on a single page. The designs feature Apollo’s head, masks, quivers of arrows, spears, festoons of fleurons, cartouches, a lyre, strapwork, a shell, scrolling foliage, rosettes, acanthus leaves, and c-scrolls. The two outer designs are running patterns featuring scrolling foliage, c-scrolls, fleurs-de-lys, and fleurons. The plates are numbered, and plate 6 is lettered with the publisher’s address.
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: 1921-6-238-15
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