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Differents Desseins de Tabatieres, premiere planche [Different Designs for Snuff Boxes], p. 49 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurele Meissonnier

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier1748

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Designs for six shell-shaped snuffboxes, each with different arrangements of flowers and leaves.

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  • Title: Differents Desseins de Tabatieres, premiere planche [Different Designs for Snuff Boxes], p. 49 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurele 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: H; upper right: 49; upper center: Huitieme Livre des oeuvres de Mr. Messonnier.; lower left: Huquier Sculp.; lower center: Differents Desseins de Tabatieres; below left: A Paris chés Huquier rue St. Jacque; below right: au coin de celle des Mathurins C.P.R.
  • Dimensions: 29.8 x 22.4 cm (11 3/4 x 8 13/16 in.)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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