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Winged Griffon on a Rocaille Bracket, from Premiere Partie Diverse Ornements
Alexis Peyrotte1745
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Large scale design with fantastical winged dragon diabolically encircling on acanthus leaf, his tongue extending from an open mouth, the tail intertwining a leafy branch. The dragon is perched on a rococo bracket, which is decorated with raffle leaves and small repetitive motifs.
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- Title: Winged Griffon on a Rocaille Bracket, from Premiere Partie Diverse Ornements
- Creator: Alexis Peyrotte
- Creator Lifespan: 1699/1769
- Date Created: 1745
- Type: Print
- Rights: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Medium: Etching on white laid paper
- Provenance: From the Collection of Léon Decloux
- Paper Support: White laid paper mounted on cream laid paper
- Inscribed: Inscribed on plate, upper left: A; upper right: 6; lower left: huquier Sculp. et ex a Paris rüe des Mathurins C.P.R.; lower right: Peyrotte in; written in graphite, verso: les 6 feuilles/(unreadable, see object); written in graphite on mount, upper right margin: n° 6
- Exhibitions: New York - CHNDM, "Rococo: The Continuing Curve 1730-2008", March 7 - July 6, 2008
- Dimensions: 47.9 x 32.8 cm (18 7/8 x 12 15/16 in.)
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