Navette, Manche de Couteau, Boëtes de Montre, Boucle &c.
date: label: Date
content: 1775-1788
name: label: Designer
content: Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96
label: Print Maker
content: Mathieu Nicolas Goulet de Saint-Morien, French, active late 18th c.
label: Publisher
content: Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Designs for a metal knife handle, shuttle, pocket watch case, and buckles. The knife handle is decorated with acanthus leaf, fluting, and wave band ornamentation. The oval shuttle is decorated with bead course and a rosette at its center. The watch case at upper right is shown in elevation and profile; it is encircled by floral ornamentation and has a basket of flowers depicted in the center. There are two buckles at bottom right. The one at the left is decorated with bead course and a central rosette; the one at right has a frame of bead course at sight edge and floral, leaf, and bead course at back edge. The plate is signed but not numbered. Based on comparison with other versions, it should be numbered 4.
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: 1921-6-278-116
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