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Desseins de Brasiers dont les Ornements peuuent Seruir aux Cuuettes, Tables, et autres Ouurages d'Orfeurerie, Plate 2

Plate 2 of a series of designs for braziers, tables and other silverware works. The main design on the left side is supported by a sphinx holding a garland of leaves. Other designs on the same side feature a faun, upper design, and a salamander, lower design. On the right side, the main design features a goat's head and leg. The other designs feature a male half figure holding a garland, upper design, and an eagle, lower design. Finally, there are three grotesques masks at the top of the plate.

Credit: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949

1660-1713
Etching
15.9 x 23.3cm
49.50.427(2)
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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