Candlestand Design
date: label: Date
content: 1787–95
name: label: Designer
content: Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840
label: Print Maker
content: Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840
label: Publisher
content: François-Étienne Joubert, French, active 1787 – 1821
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a large candlestand or torchère decorated with Neoclassical and Empire style motifs such as fluting, foliage, acanthus leaves, laurel leaves, gadrooning, festoons of fruits and foliage, eagle heads, vase, sphynx, or winged lions, palmettes, rosettes, and scrolling leaf patters. The plate is numbered and signed.
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: 1921-6-372-2
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper