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date: label: Date
content: 1779-90
name: label: Designer
content: Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786
label: Print Maker
content: Jacques Juillet, French, 1739- after 1784
label: Publisher
content: Le Campion Frères, French, 1769 – 1790
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a canopy bed (baldachin) (side view) with the posts bending inwards to support a smaller crown canopy (baldachin) along the side of the bed. The headboard and footboard are the same height and decorated with fleurons, scrolling acanthus leaves (rinceaux), diagonal fluting on the posts, and upholstered with a striped pattern and hanging textiles from tied bows. The crown is topped with a central acorn finial and corner feather finials and draped with floral and scalloped embroidered textiles. The bed curtains are tied back to the posts. The plate is titled, numbered, and signed. A scale below.
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: 1921-6-395-61
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on laid paper