Six Tailpiece Designs
date: label: Date
content: 1759–80
name: label: Designer
content: Jacques de Sève, French, active 1742 – 1788
label: Publisher
content: Louis-Joseph Mondhare, French, 1734–1799
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Six individual designs for tailpieces featuring putti with rococo ornament and chinoiserie (in the Chinese style) motifs. The vignettes feature putti dressed in different costumes, in Chinese style dress, and military uniform. The ornament features rococo ornament, cartouches, masks, c-scrolls, s-scrolls, scrolling acanthus leaves and festoons of leaves. Top left: figures around a cauldron over a fire, with one putto lying on the ground. Top right: a putto in military uniform and another next to a plinth. Lower left: a central putto sitting on a chair with three others around him, gesturing towards him. Lower right: Two putto, one laying on the ground and the other crouched over him.
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: 1921-6-288-5
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