Design for a Watchcase Lid or Medallion
date: label: Date
content: 17th century
name: label: Print Maker
content: Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686
label: Designer
content: Jacques Vauquer, French, 1621–1686
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Two small ornament prints, side-by-side – designs for medallions or lids for circular watchcases. To the left, an early proof of a design featuring scrolling leaves, fleurons, rosettes, a mask, fruit, flowers, and birds. To the right, the design includes a central basket of fruit and leaves surrounded by scrolling leaves, fleurons, two vases of flowers, three birds, flowers, and fruit. Another impression of this same design is pasted above on the same page of the album.
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: 1921-6-529-14
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraving on laid paper