Burner Designs for Pedestals
date: label: Date
content: 1785-1788
name: label: Designer
content: Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96
label: Print Maker
content: Augustin Nicolas Foin, French, 1726–c. 1759
label: Publisher
content: Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The plate is divided into two, with a burner on a pedestal in the upper and lower halves of the sheet. At top, the burner is ornamented with gadrooning and scrolling acanthus leaves. It sits on a wide, low pedestal that has at its center a medallion with a mascaron, edges with bead course. The pedestal also has fluting, is draped with garlands, has rosettes in its corners, and pinecone finials at the edges. The burner in the lower half of the page is draped with garland of flowers and decorated with gadrooning and fluting. It sits on a pedestal that has a frieze of bound oak leaf, rosettes at its edges, and floral garland. 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: 1921-6-330-94
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