Design for an Escutcheon with Allusions to Egypt
date: label: Date
content: 1725–50
name: label: Designer
content: Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A fountain is obliquely shown, the back of which is formed by shell containing an ovoid as the field of the escutcheon. It is topped by the head of a lion. Nile is seated, reaching with his right arm over a sphinx toward a jar from which water pours. At the right of him are two children and a dragon. Water is shown in the right foreground. Views of the interior of his temple at right, of three nymphs of sources and a palm at left.
place: label: made in
content: 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: 1911-28-172
objectType: label: Type
content: ornament
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and ink, grey wash, black chalk on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 16 x 21 cm (6 x 8 1/4 in.)