Design for Ceiling Ornament
date: label: Date
content: 1740
name: label: Designer
content: François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, active Germany, 1695 - 1768
label: Print Maker
content: Franz Xaver Andreas Jungwierth, German, 1720–1790
label: Publisher
content: François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, active Germany, 1695 - 1768
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Folio 11, plate 3 of series 7. Design for ceiling with one quarter depicted. Upper left (presumed central ceiling motif), lard medallion with 4 quadrants: moon and stars (upper left), wind with birds in flight (upper right), rain (lower left), wind (lower right). Below, at right angle, grotesque figure, a cartouche with a scene of a small boy and dog, a helmet and spear, a sun, signs of the zodiac, neptune holding a triton, leaning on a barrel of falling water. Design is linked together by cartouches and arabesques. S and C scrolls. Sections are connected with dotted lines, presumably as a guide for the stucco decoration.
place: label: made in
content: Munich, Germany
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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: 1921-6-282-11
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bound print
label: Type
content: Bound print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraving on white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 28 × 38.8 cm (11 × 15 1/4 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 25.5 × 31.5 cm (10 1/16 × 12 3/8 in.)