Arabesque Ornament Designs
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Four horizontal designs for ornamental friezes with repeating patterns featuring arabesque motifs. The designs include vases, flowers, animal/human heads, festoons of flowers, ribbons, scrolling leaves, quivers of arrows, wings, snakes, birds, beads, masks, terminal winged-sphynx figures, baskets and vases of flowers and fruit, rosettes, flaming torches, and fleurons. The plate is numbered and signed.
- Credit Line
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- late 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1921-6-306-6
- 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 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_1921-6-306-6
