Staircase Balustrade Design
date: label: Date
content: 1772–77
name: label: Designer
content: Laurent Desboeufs de Saint-Laurent, French, active 1763 – 1776
label: Print Maker
content: Jean Pelletier, French, born ca. 1736
label: Publisher
content: Le Père et Avaulez, Paris, 1772–1777
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A design for a wrought-iron staircase balustrade featuring ovals, key and wave patterns, rosettes, fleurons, and scrolling leaves with a sculpted flaming vase newel finial decorated with ram’s heads on the handles. There is a large flaming vase on a plinth in a niche to the left, below the staircase. The vase is decorated with a frieze of putti, acanthus leaves, fluting, and Greek key handles. The plate is numbered and signed.
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: 1921-6-487-4
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on paper