Designs for Sculpted Ornament and a Screen or Balustrade
date: label: Date
content: 1748
name: label: Designer
content: Thomas Germain, French, 1673 – 1748
label: Print Maker
content: Benoit II Audran, French, 1698 – 1772
label: Publisher
content: Benoit II Audran, French, 1698 – 1772
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Designs for ornamental metalwork, possibly a screen or balustrade along the bottom and above two bases for candelabras or other objects flanked by winged putti (children). The metalwork features flowers, c-scrolls, scrolling leaves, festoons of leaves, fleurons, scrolling acanthus leaves, and a cross with religious iconography.
place: label: made in
content: France
label: published in
content: Paris, France
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1921-6-464-4
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on paper