Design of Escutcheon and Draped Tablet
date: label: Date
content: mid-17th century
name: label: Artist
content: Leonardo Scaglia, French, active Italy, 1640 – 1650
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Escutcheon in the shape of an ellipse is ornamented at left and right with a serpent and possibly an eagle at right. Suspended from it below is a tablet with swags at either end like drapery, ending in a scalloped edge.
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: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-88-2192
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 black ink, brush and gray wash, graphite on cream laid paper, lined
label: Dimensions
content: 18.9 x 13.2 cm (7 7/16 x 5 3/16 in.)