Designs for Torcheres, a Lectern, and a Sconce
date: label: Date
content: mid- 18th century
name: label: Designer
content: Lange, active 1730 – 1750
label: Print Maker
content: Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Poilly, de, French, 1707 – 1780
label: Publisher
content: Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Poilly, de, French, 1707 – 1780
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A sheet with a central design for a liturgical lectern decorated with rocaille motifs, masks, an eagle, angel, shell, and acanthus leaf motifs. Two designs for torcheres on either side with scales. The torcheres decorated with rocaille motifs, palm leaves, trophies, cartouches, and putti. A candlestick in the upper left and a sconce in the upper right, decorated with rocaille motifs, cartouches, acanthus leaves, c-scrolls, and fleurons.
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: 1921-6-328-3
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