Boëtes ou Tabatieres
date: label: Date
content: 1775-1788
name: label: Designer
content: Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96
label: Print Maker
content: Mathieu Nicolas Goulet de Saint-Morien, French, active late 18th c.
label: Print Maker
content: Angélique Gabrielle Sélincart, French, active late eighteenth century
label: Publisher
content: Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a box or snuffbox featuring, from top to bottom, the elevation of the lid with bead course and fluting; a view of the top of the lid with rosette, bead course, and bound leaves; and an elevation of the box with the lid open at the hinge, which has at its center a profile portrait medallion framed by horns of plenty with flowers. The plate is signed and numbered, and also includes an etched signature of Angélique Gabrielle Sélincart, the wife of De St. Morien.
place: label: published in
content: Paris, France
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1921-6-278-119
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on off-white laid paper