Design for Doors
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
name: label: Designer
content: Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739
label: Print Maker
content: Jean Joseph Balechou, French, 1719 – 1764
label: Publisher
content: Claude Niquet, French, active ca. 1769 – after 1831
label: Publisher
content: Dubois, French, active ca. 1769
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A printed sheet from a series of thirty designs for moldings, carved frames, doors, chimneys and liturgical objects. A design for a set of double doors, doorcase and overdoor, decorated with a profile portrait in a roundel, framed with shell and acanthus fronds, flowers and a laurel wreathed mascarons of Apollo, flanked by floral fretwork, within an oval panel. Above, more acanthus fronds, rosettes, and C-scrolls with an ornamental molding above. The doors are composed of three framed sections. Above, small horizontal panels with rosettes and scrolls, large central panels, featuring roundels with central rosettes, strapwork and fretwork, acanthus fronds, shells and C-scrolls, with smaller blank panels bellow. The plate is signed and numbered.
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: 1921-6-236-14
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper