Arabesque Ornament Design
date: label: Date
content: 1787–95
name: label: Designer
content: Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840
label: Print Maker
content: Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840
label: Publisher
content: François-Étienne Joubert, French, active 1787 – 1821
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A vertical plate with arabesque ornament designs featuring mythological creatures and figures, masks, vases, scrolling foliage and acanthus leaves, ribbons, baskets of flowers and fruit, a roundel with a winged female figure, incense burners, rosettes, and an arch supported with columns, a winged cupid figure on a plinth. 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: 1921-6-372-12
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper