Lampadaire
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: Design a chandelier with five hanging thuribles or censers for liturgical use. The body of the chandelier is decorated with rococo motifs, flowers, and leaves, palmette motif, gadrooning, c-scrolls, scrolling acanthus leaves, fleurons, a diaper pattern, topped with an ‘M’ and ‘A’ cypher. The chandelier is hanging from two ropes, with each thurible hanging from ropes with tassels, ribbons, and fleurons. The thuribles / censors are suspended by chains, with bodies decorated with gadrooning, and floral motifs. The central one is decorated with putti heads on the sides. 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: 1921-6-309-3
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