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Ornament Design with Crayfish Motif, pl. 14 in Livre des Légumes [Series of Vegetable Ornament]pl. in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier1748
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
A crayfish lies over a shell cartouche and in front of sprouting reeds and other mollusks.
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- Title: Ornament Design with Crayfish Motif, pl. 14 in Livre des Légumes [Series of Vegetable Ornament]pl. in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier
- 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: C; upper right: No. 14; lower left: MEISSONIER INV.; lower right: CHEDEL SCUL.; lower center: C.P.R.
- Dimensions: 16 x 11.1 cm (6 5/16 x 4 3/8 in.)
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