Design for Two Gilt Bronze Chandeliers
date: label: Date
content: 1777
name: label: Artist
content: Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825
label: Designer
content: François-Joseph Bélanger, French, 1744–1818
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for two chandeliers. Left, is a chandelier with a lyre as the shaft. Branches of bottom row of candle shafts form French horns and top branches of candle shafts form flower boughs. Right, is a chandelier with the shaft formed by four children standing on fantastic birds, which, in turn, stand on a sphere. Sockets for candles are placed in the children's hands and on the heads of the birds.
place: label: designed 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: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1921-6-62
objectType: label: Type
content: lighting
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper, lined with paper and framed with brown paper stripe
label: Dimensions
content: 20.5 x 29.3 cm (8 1/16 x 11 9/16 in.)