Church Gate Design
date: label: Date
content: 1775–87
name: label: Designer
content: Caillouet, French, mid-18th century
label: Print Maker
content: de Saint-Morien, French, active 18th century
label: Publisher
content: Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A design for a wrought-iron church gate with two large double doors, topped with a segmental (arched) pediment decorated with a pyramid surrounded by rays of light and clouds. The doors are decorated with a diaper and fleuron pattern, scrolling bands, fleurs-de-lys, and two oval roundels with the French royal cypher of double L’s. The doors are flanked by fluted pilasters and geometric, wave, and scrolling bands. 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: 1921-6-514-14
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