Censer and Candelabrum Design
date: label: Date
content: 1775-1788
name: label: Designer
content: Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96
label: Print Maker
content: Augustin Nicolas Foin, French, 1726–c. 1759
label: Publisher
content: Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Designs for a censer (left) and a candelabrum (right). The censer has a hexagonal base with concave sides decorated with festoons and rosettes. The censer has a shaft with three hooved feet, beading detail along its length, and grotesque heads at the top. The censer at the top is in the form of a shallow, lidded vase with handles. The four-armed candelabrum on the right has a tall base with decorative elements including gadrooning, bead course, snakes, rosettes, acanthus leaves, and grotesque beast heads from whose mouths emerge garlands of flowers and leaves that forms the arms of the candelabrum. At the center top of the form is an oval, lidded vase with geometric handles and a pinecone finial. The cross-sections of the bases of the censer and candelabrum are printed below, along with scale bars of two French feet ("2 Pieds") each. The plate is signed and numbered.
place: label: published in
content: Paris, France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1921-6-278-47
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on off-white laid paper