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Elevation of a Porcelain Writing Set
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier1748
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Design for a writing set with a central cartouche showing Apollo (at left) holding a bottle and a muse (at right). The scene is framed with foliage, a large bush-like arrangement above surmounted by a count's crest. Central cartouche is framed by asymmetrical wells on either side.
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Details
- Title: Elevation of a Porcelain Writing Set
- Creator: Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier
- Creator Lifespan: 1695/1750
- Date Created: 1748
- Type: Print
- Rights: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Medium: Etching on off-white laid paper
- Provenance: Jean Léon Decloux (Decloux 173)
- Paper Support: Off-white laid paper
- Inscribed: Inscribed on plate, upper left: G; upper right: 42; upper center: Septieme Livre des Oeuvres de J.A. Meissonnier; lower left: J.A. Meissonnier inv.; lower right: Huquier Sculp.; lower center: Ecritoire de Porcelaine/A Paris chés Huquier rue St. Jacques au coin de celle du Mathurins C.P.R.
- Dimensions: 18 x 26.5 cm (7 1/16 x 10 7/16 in.)
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