Fantastical Garden Ornament Design
date: label: Date
content: 1736
name: label: Designer
content: François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755
label: Print Maker
content: Antoine Aveline, French, 1691 – 1743
label: Publisher
content: François-Thomas Mondon, French, 1709 – 1755
label: Publisher
content: Antoine Aveline, French, 1691 – 1743
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A chinoiserie (European decorative arts and architectural style inspired by fanciful ideas of China and East Asia) ornament print, with figures in a fantastical garden landscape. A male figure with three faces and four arms, sits on a shell throne. A banner to the right. The throne is atop a large rocaille fantastical architectural structure with steps, a balustrade, with arches and a water feature below, trees in the background. A figure and a bird in the foreground to the right. The ornament features curvilinear motifs, c-scrolls, shells, flags, and scrolling leaves ‘rinceaux’. The plate is numbered and signed.
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: 1921-6-366-2
objectType: label: Type
content: ornament
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
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 23.3 x 17.8 cm (9 3/16 x 7 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 31.9 x 23.5 cm (12 9/16 x 9 1/4 in.)