Etui Designs
date: label: Date
content: 1771
name: label: Designer
content: Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798
label: Print Maker
content: Pierre Moreau, French, 1722 – 1798
label: Publisher
content: Jean-Baptiste Crépy, French, active 1753 – d. 1796
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Within a double-lined frame, two designs for rectangular etuis, small ornamental cases, side-by-side. Left: decorated with neo-classical bands, fluting, laurel leaves, fleurons and a garland of flowers, with a central cartouche of birds within a landscape framed within palm leaves and c-scrolls and ribbons. Right: decorated with garlands, fleurons, ‘rocaille’ scrolls, gadrooning and shell motifs, scale pattern, with a central cartouche featuring a trophy and two hearts. The lid features dolphins with a vase finial. A scale below. 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: 1921-6-369-5
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