Sphynx Ornament Design
date: label: Date
content: 1776–89
name: label: Designer
content: Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811
label: Print Maker
content: Louis-Marin Bonnet, French, 1736 - 1793
label: Publisher
content: Louis-Marin Bonnet, French, 1736 - 1793
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: An Arabesque ornament design featuring a sphynx with wings outstretched, its tail forming scrolling leaves (rinceaux), with hanging gapes, and a festoon of leaves hanging from the wings. The plate is numbered.
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: 1921-6-481-6
objectType: label: Type
content: ornament
label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Crayon manner etching on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 24.6 x 18.2 cm (9 11/16 x 7 3/16 in. ), plate