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Design for a Ceiling Decoration

An imaginary frieze in which escutcheon are to alternate with brackets and a projecting entablature are shown obliquely from beneath. A bracket with a mask and a double top is flanked by a right half of a scrollwork escutcheon with a child's head, and by the left half of an escutcheon showing a cornucopia, at right.

Credit: Museum purchase through gift of various donors

1690-1720
Black chalk, pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper
1901-39-1231
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020

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