Designs for Frames and an Incense Burner
date: label: Date
content: 1777–78
name: label: Designer
content: Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820
label: Print Maker
content: Jacques Juillet, French, 1739- after 1784
label: Publisher
content: Émilie-Louise Avaulez, French, active 1777 – 1779
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Designs for three frames and an incense burner decorated with neoclassical motifs. To the left, an oval frame with a picture of a landscape sits within the center of a larger rectangular frame. To the right is a frame with a picture of a landscape with a figure. The frames are topped with a vase, wings, helmet, arrow, festoons of foliate branches, and flowers. The incense burner in the center is decorated with meander and scrolling leaf motifs, fluting, caryatids with wings. The plate is numbered.
place: label: made in
content: France
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: 1921-6-482-42
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on paper
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 46.2 × 30.1 cm (18 3/16 × 11 7/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 37.5 × 23.8 cm (14 3/4 × 9 3/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 35 × 21.2 cm (13 3/4 × 8 3/8 in.)