Snuffbox Design
date: label: Date
content: 1771
name: label: Designer
content: Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798
label: Print Maker
content: Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798
label: Publisher
content: Jean-Baptiste Crépy, French, active 1753 – d. 1796
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A design for an oval snuffbox with neoclassical and rococo motifs. Above, a view of the lid of the box, with a central oval roundel illustrating a group of putti playing with rams in a landscape. The vignette is framed by festoons of flowers tied with ribbons. Below, a view of the side of the box with a central cartouche of a bird, framed by rococo ornament, c-scrolls, rinceaux, fleurons, shells, gadrooning, laurel leaves, and festoons of flowers and ribbons. There is an unnumbered scale below. 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: 1921-6-418-2
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