Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Vertical arabesque ornament design featuring neoclassical motifs, a vase or basin with intertwined snakes as its base, flanked by winged mermaids with vases of flowers on their heads, and scrolling acanthus leaf, fleurons, rosettes and festoons of flowers and leaves with a roundel above with three classically dressed figures. Below, a snake handled lidded vase with the winged head of Apollo and a hanging festoon of leaves. The plate is numbered.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Etienne de Lavallée, French, 1735 – 1802
- Print Maker
- Laurent Guyot, French, 1756 - 1808
- Date
- 1788
- Credit Line
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Medium
- Etching and aquatint on laid paper
- Object Name
- Type
