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: Within a double-lined frame, a design for a snuffbox, showing the lid, in the upper center and the side below, with a scale in the lower center. The lid is decorated with a central trophy of musical instruments, flowers, and ribbons within a central cartouche, surrounded by a scale pattern, with two cartouches on either side with trophies of bows and arrows in quivers. The corners and sides are decorated with shells, leaves, scrolls and fleurons. The side of the box is decorated with a central cartouche depicting agricultural tools within a landscape framed by leaf scrolls, fleurons and shell motifs, with scrollwork, with acanthus leaves and rosettes, with a Greek key motif. The plate is numbered, signed, and dated.
place: 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: 1921-6-369-12
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