Enseigne d’horloge
date: label: Date
content: 1742–55
name: label: Designer
content: Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760
label: Publisher
content: François Chéreau, the younger, French, 1717 – 1755
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a clock sign with rococo motifs, featuring strapwork, tassels, scrolling acanthus leaves, fleurons, gadrooning, a monkey, lion, cockerel, and topped with a crown and foliate branches. In the center a clock face with roman numerals and a rosette center holding the clock hands. The plate is numbered and signed.
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: 1921-6-309-6
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