Recto, Design for a door handle with alternative suggestions
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1660–80
name: label: Designer
content: Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Recto: left and right halves of different designs are joined. Left motif is composed of a dragon and flying putto, with foliate decoration; right motif, a half-figure and putto with foliate decoration enframe a rondel showing Hercules seated. Verso: left half shows a dragon's foreparts resting on a scrollwork bracket; right half, a flying putto and an eagle. Below, joined, two putti support the keyhole.
place: label: made in
content: 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: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-88-4541
objectType: label: Type
content: metalwork
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and bistre ink, graphite, on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 24 × 18.2 cm (9 7/16 × 7 3/16 in.)