Two Staircase Balustrade Designs
date: label: Date
content: 1775–87
name: label: Designer
content: Caillouet, French, mid-18th century
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: Two designs for wrought-iron staircase balustrades featuring scrolling and geometric bands, arrows, rosettes, scrolling leaves (fleurons). The upper design newel features an atlas (telamon) with a lower body made of scrolling acanthus leaves. The lower design newel features a snake. The plate is signed 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: 1921-6-514-24
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraving and etching on paper