Ornament Designs
date: label: Date
content: ca.1670–ca.1700
name: label: Designer
content: Jean Bérain, the elder, French, 1640 – 1711
label: Print Maker
content: Jean Bérain, the elder, French, 1640 – 1711
label: Designer
content: Jean Bérain the Younger, French, 1674 – 1726
label: Print Maker
content: Jean Bérain the Younger, French, 1674 – 1726
label: Publisher
content: Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A plate with vertical ornament designs featuring arabesques and grotesques motifs, scrolling foliage, masks, rosettes, terminal figures, fleurons, fruits, mythological figures, winged female figure of Victory, an owl, and birds. The panels and friezes are divided by lines. The plate is numbered and signed.
place: 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: 1921-6-238-12
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on laid paper