Arabesque Panel Design
date: label: Date
content: 1775–88
name: label: Designer
content: Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782
label: Print Maker
content: Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782
label: Publisher
content: Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: An arabesque panel design featuring a caduceus (the staff carried by the Greek and Roman god Hermes/ Mercury) with wings, and intertwined snakes, framed by birds, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), festoons of leaves, fleurons, a mascaron (mask) with a basket of fruit above. The plate is signed and numbered.
place: 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: 1921-6-396-25
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on paper