Design for Chinoiserie Flowers

Object Details

Catalogue Status: Research in Progress
Description: Design for fantastical chinoiserie-style flowers from a series of six plates. A variety of differently shaped and sized sprigs of flowers and leaves flowering from the same looping stem. The plate is signed.

Credit Line: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council

Data Source: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Date: 1765–73

Accession Number: 1921-6-382-2

Designer: Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808
Print Maker: Johann Heinrich Hess, German, 1746 – 1816
Publisher: Charles Leviez, French, 1708–1778

Restrictions & Rights: CC0

Object Name: Print
Type: Print

Medium: Etching on laid paper

published in: Paris, France

See more items in: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection; Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department

Record ID: chndm_1921-6-382-2

Usage: CC0

GUID: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq42d07f28b-5d05-4331-9f03-1e14bd3592c8

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