Bookends
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1780
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Pair of bookends (a & b). Each architectonic, L-shaped, stepped and curved green/black granite base with applied gilt bronze cornucopia, be-ribboned and spilling forth fruit, foliage and flowers; three-sided, rectangular band of gilt bronze molding just below joint of vertical and horizontal granite elements.
place: label: made in
content: France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts 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: 1909-25-78-a,b
objectType: label: Type
content: metalwork
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: Bookends
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Gilt bronze, granite
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (a): 19.2 x 16.9 x 17.2 cm (7 9/16 x 6 5/8 x 6 3/4 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (b): 19.2 x 16.9 x 17.2 cm (7 9/16 x 6 5/8 x 6 3/4 in.)