Two Chair Designs
date: label: Date
content: 1849–66
name: label: Designer
content: Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789
label: Print Maker
content: Auguste Péquégnot, French, 1819 – 1878
label: Printer
content: Pierron, French, active 1849 – 1866
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Two designs for upholstered chairs with carved frames. The chair to the left is either a bidet or a bath. The chair to the right is an armchair with an oval back. The chairs feature festoons of flowers and laurel leaves, rosettes, scrolling leaves, doves, ribbons, and laurel leaf molding. The plate is signed with the printmaker, publisher, and original designer, 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: 1921-6-456-29
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on paper