Ornament Designs
date: label: Date
content: early 18th century
name: label: Designer
content: Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731
label: Print Maker
content: Honoré Blanc, French, active 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Ornament designs featuring grotesque motifs: a central cartouche on a plinth framed by putti, palm leaves, wings, ribbons, a shell, with a mythological creature (lion with wings and breasts), and a profile portrait of a man wearing a jester’s hat to the left. The plate is 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: 1921-6-411-73
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper