Designs for Incense Burners and a Framed Picture
date: label: Date
content: 1777–78
name: label: Designer
content: Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820
label: Print Maker
content: Jacques Juillet, French, 1739- after 1784
label: Publisher
content: Émilie-Louise Avaulez, French, active 1777 – 1779
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Designs for two incense burners on plinths flanking a central framed picture or panel featuring neoclassical motifs. The incense burners are decorated with a putto, meander motif, fluting, cartouche, flowers, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), and a festoon of flowers. The picture or panel in the center illustrates an interior scene with drapery and a nude (naked) female figure lying with a swan, from the Greek myth Leda and the Swan. The scene is framed by a garland of flowers. The frame is topped by two putti holding arrows and a festoon of flowers and leaves. The plate is numbered.
place: label: made in
content: France
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: 1921-6-482-41
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching in red ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 46.2 × 29.5 cm (18 3/16 × 11 5/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 37.4 × 23.5 cm (14 3/4 × 9 1/4 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 35.3 × 21.6 cm (13 7/8 × 8 1/2 in.)