Suspensoir
date: label: Date
content: 1742–55
name: label: Designer
content: Jacques Valentin Fontaine, French, active 1740 – 1760
label: Publisher
content: François Chéreau, the younger, French, 1717 – 1755
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Two designs for hanging censers / thuribles or lanterns. A large scrolling stand/bracket decorated with palm and acanthus leaves, fleurons, gadrooning, a rosette and fluting, holding a hanging lantern or censer, adorned with tassels, and a lattice pattern. Below a design for just the lantern or censer, in the shape of a bell, topped with a French royal crown and a fleur-de-lys finial, with fleurons, scrolling leaves, and hanging tassels. The plate is numbered and titled.
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: 1921-6-309-2
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on laid paper