Design for Doors
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
name: label: Designer
content: Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739
label: Print Maker
content: Jean Joseph Balechou, French, 1719 – 1764
label: Publisher
content: Claude Niquet, French, active ca. 1769 – after 1831
label: Publisher
content: Dubois, French, active ca. 1769
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A printed sheet from a series of thirty designs for moldings, carved frames, doors, chimneys, and liturgical objects. A design for a set of double doors, doorcase and overdoor. The doors are composed of four framed sections. The panels in the upper section are octagonal with acanthus leaves and fleurons ornament along the shorter edges. Below is a small rectangular section decorated with central mascarons. The large central section below is decorated with strapwork, fretwork, acanthus and scroll ornament along the top and bottom edges. The lower section is blank. The doorcase is decorated with floral fretwork and winged mascarons flanking the semi-circular overdoor. A central blank cartouche above the door, ornamented with a shell pattern, fronds, C-scrolls, with a shell and crown above. More floral fretwork above, framed by acanthus leaf ornament. The lintel is carved with rosettes, strapwork, scrolls and acanthus leaves. The plate is signed and numbered.
place: 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: 1921-6-236-16
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper