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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: Print Maker
content: Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger, French, 1715–1790
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 figure of the Classical Greek and Roman god Apollo in the center, seated in the clouds with surrounded by rays of light, framed by a canopy, two figures on either side on plinths, with an incense burner in the foreground with ewers, incense burners, roundels, and rococo ornament, featuring rosettes, fleurons, rinceaux, festoons of flowers, baskets of flowers, hanging trophies, bows and quivers of arrows. The plate is numbered, titled, and signed with the publisher’s address.
place: label: made in
content: France
label: published in
content: Paris, France
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
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: 1921-6-420-1
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