Design for a Sofa
date: label: Date
content: 1849–66
name: label: Designer
content: A. Duval, French, active 18th century
label: Print Maker
content: Auguste Péquégnot, French, 1819 – 1878
label: Printer
content: Pierron, French, active 1849 – 1866
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for an upholstered sofa with an ornately sculpted wooden frame and cabriole legs. The frame features shells, flowers, c-scrolls, and scrolling leaves. The textile features a pattern of c-scrolls with a central oval cartouche illustrating a horned cow in a landscape. The plate is signed with the printmaker, publisher, and original designer, and 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: 1921-6-456-8
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on paper