Arabesque Design for a Panel
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1775
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Gaine with the bust of Dionysus supporting a bowl full of bunches of grapes and leaves from which a faun with a thyrsus and two acanthus scrolls rise. A disk with roses and a trophy are suspended from the scroll at right. A flower basket standing upon the head of the half-figure of a lion, below. The left half shows the half-figure of a lion supporting a flower basket over which a thyrsus rises and to which a trophy of pastoral musical instruments is fastened. Framing strip.
place: label: made in
content: 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: 1908-26-132
objectType: label: Type
content: ornament
label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Type
content: drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and ink, brush and wash on paper
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 27.9 x 13.1 cm (11 x 5 3/16 in.)