Ceiling Design
date: label: Date
content: 1700–15
name: label: Designer
content: Jean Lemoyne, French, 1638 – 1715
label: Print Maker
content: Jean Lemoyne, French, 1638 – 1715
label: Publisher
content: Gaspard Duchange, French, 1662 – 1757
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Plate from a series of seven ceiling designs, showing half of an ornately decorated ceiling with part of ceiling rosace in the center. The decoration features grotesque and arabesque motifs, acanthus leaves, friezes, garlands of flowers, mosaic and fretwork patterns, rosettes, baskets of flowers, drapery, tassels, masks, military trophies, incense burners, female figures, sphynxes, roundels with standing female figures, fleurons, scrolling foliate and strapwork. The plate is 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: 1921-6-315-2
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper