Ornament Design
date: label: Date
content: 1716
name: label: Designer
content: Jean-Bernard Turreau, French, 1672 - 1731
label: Print Maker
content: Charles-Nicolas Cochin the elder, French, 1688–1754
label: Publisher
content: Claude-Nicolas Le Pas Dubuisson, French, 1663 – 1733
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for ornament, possibly for decoration within a pediment, featuring grotesque motifs, scrolling leaves, rosettes, fleurons, foliate scrolls, putti, mascarons (masks), seahorses (hippocampus), unicorns with wings and fish tails, dolphins, mermaid, trident, reeds, and a pedestal with figures, and flaming torches above. The plate is signed.
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
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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: 1921-6-411-12
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper