Door Knocker or Handle Designs
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1665
name: label: Designer
content: Antoine Pierretz le jeune, French, active 1660-70
label: Publisher
content: François de Poilly, French, 1622 - 1693
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Two half designs for door knockers or door handles featuring an eagle, lightening bolts, terminal figures, garlands of flowers, rosettes, masks, shells, scrolling acanthus leaves and fruit. Below, a half design for a rosette with fleurons and acanthus leaf motifs and two-part views of bolts(?) with similar motifs. 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: 1921-6-473-7
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper