Lit Dauphine
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
name: label: Designer
content: Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786
label: Print Maker
content: Jacques Juillet, French, 1739- after 1784
label: Publisher
content: Esnauts et Rapilly, French, active 1766 – 1804
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a crown canopy (baldachin) bed with the crown supported by two poles, along the side of the bed and projecting from the wall. The crown is topped with a pineapple finial and corner feather finials. The bed curtains are tied back. The headboard and footboards are the same height and carved with flowers, dolphins with scrolling acanthus leaf bodies, and vases with flowers. The bed linen is decorated with floral motifs, and swags of hanging textiles. The bed skirt features a central oval cartouche with the French Royal interlaced L’s. A scale below the design. The plate is titled, numbered, and signed.
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: 1921-6-395-53
objectType: label: Type
content: furniture
label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on blue paper