Three Chair Designs
date: label: Date
content: 1849–66
name: label: Designer
content: Charles de Wailly, French, 1729 – 1798
label: Print Maker
content: Auguste Péquégnot, French, 1819 – 1878
label: Printer
content: Pierron, French, active 1849 – 1866
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Three designs for chairs, two are upholstered, and the third illustrates only the frame with variations for the back. The designs feature flowers, mascaron (mask), gadrooning, molding, shell, rosettes, and fleurons. The plate is signed with the printmaker, publisher, and original designer / date, and 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: 1921-6-456-57
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on paper