Rocaille Ornament Design
date: label: Date
content: after 1736
name: label: Designer
content: François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755
label: Print Maker
content: Antoine Aveline, French, 1691 – 1743
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A print from a series of seven designs for trophies, rococo ornament and vignettes. A group of musical instruments – a tambourine, horn, and cello- in the middle of a fantastical rocaille interior featuring sheet music, cartouches, c-scrolls, acanthus leaves, palm leaves, garlands of flowers, and shell motifs with interlaced garlands of flowers, balustrades, and a candelabrum. In the backroad, a seated female with a male behind her and another at her feet. Above two winged putti with a central cartouche featuring three fleurs-de-lys with a draped fabric hanging from above and pulled back to the left. The plate is signed and numbered.
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: 1921-6-531-13
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper