Design for Doors
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
name: label: Designer
content: Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739
label: Print Maker
content: Jean Joseph Balechou, French, 1719 – 1764
label: Publisher
content: Claude Niquet, French, active ca. 1769 – after 1831
label: Publisher
content: Dubois, French, active ca. 1769
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A printed sheet from a series of thirty designs for moldings, carved frames, doors, chimneys, and liturgical objects. A design for a set of double doors, doorcase and overdoor. The doors are composed of four framed sections. The upper section is carved in relief with a central shell ornamented with acanthus leaves and strapwork, the central large section is blank, with acanthus leaf ornament in the corners. Below, a small rectangular section, with a central rosette and interlaced scrolls, acanthus leaves and fleurons. The lower section is blank. The side panels of the doorcase are composed of three sections, with a carved rosette in the middle. The panels are ornamented in relief with fleurons, C-scrolls and strapwork. The overdoor is carved in relief with a central trophy, featuring arrows, quivers, a feathered helmet, shield, fronds, a shell, mascarons in profile with a fretwork cartouche below. The whole is framed by C-scolls, acanthus leaves, fleurons and sphinxes. The lintel above has a molding carved in relief with similar motifs. 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: 1921-6-236-15
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper