Box, Jewelry, and Seal Designs
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Fifth plate from a series of designs for jewelry, boxes, snuffboxes, rings, seals, cane handles and other small luxury objects. The plate includes nineteen designs for boxes, jewelry, earrings, and seals decorated with neoclassical motifs. The decoration includes repeating patterns and borders, fleurons, rosettes, rinceaux, scrolling leaves, beads, floral diaper pattern, leaves, and dots. The plate is numbered.
- Credit Line
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- late 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1921-6-304-5
- Designer
- Jean-Baptiste Fay, French, active 1765 – 1790s
- Print Maker
- Jean-Baptiste Fay, French, active 1765 – 1790s
- Publisher
- Louis-Joseph Mondhare, French, 1734–1799
- Pierre Jean, French, 1754–1829
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Object Name
- Type
- Medium
- Etching and engraving on laid paper
- made in
- France
- published in
- Paris, France
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Record ID
- chndm_1921-6-304-5
