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Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- A frame with curved, chamfered corners decorated at the top with putti, one holding a ribbon inscribed "Dum Spiro Spero," above an escutcheon showing a rampant lion and three crescents. At either side, flying putti hold rose garlands. At the bottom, water and fruit spill from three overturned vases, two other escutcheons, a mace and oars. The frame rests on a stone base with attached rings at either side.
- Credit Line
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- 1760-1770
- Accession Number
- 1911-28-513
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Object Name
- drawing
- Type
- drawing
- Medium
- Pen and ink, brush and wash on paper
- Dimensions
- 20.4 × 25 cm (8 1/16 × 9 13/16 in.)
- made in
- France
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Record ID
- chndm_1911-28-513
