Vase, Busts, and Arabesques Ornament Designs
date: label: Date
content: 1788
name: label: Designer
content: Etienne de Lavallée, French, 1735 – 1802
label: Print Maker
content: Laurent Guyot, French, 1756 - 1808
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Ornament designs with neoclassical motifs. Upper center – a lidded vase decorated with the head of Apollo and fluting around the body, flanked by two portrait busts of young boys. The vases and the busts are on stone base decorated with two lions, snakes and scrolling acanthus leaf motifs. In the lower center, an arabesque ornament design featuring scrolling acanthus leaves, terminal heads, a vase, garlands of leaves, and incense burners. The plate is signed and numbered.
place: label: made in
content: France
label: published in
content: Paris, France
label: designed in
content: Rome, Italy
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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: 1921-6-335-20
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and aquatint on laid paper