Design for a table with monopods, Plate 38 in Receuil des dècorations intérieurs
date: label: Date
content: 1812
name: label: Designer
content: Charles Percier, French, 1764–1838
label: Designer
content: Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine, French, 1762–1853
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Plate 38 shows four separate images each numbered 1 to 4. Number 1, shown at the top of the sheet is a design for a heavy table with monopod motifs at either end. Number 2, at center, is a design for a bronze vase. Number 3, lower left, depicts the side panel of the desk shown at top that features a figure of Fame with attributes of laurel wreath and trumpet standing on a ledge above a bucranium. Number 4, lower right, shows a clock design featuring Apollo in his chariot above the dial and a frieze of dancing nymphs in classical garb on either side of a Janus headed herm below.
place: label: made 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: 1921-6-377-39
objectType: label: Type
content: furniture
label: Object Name
content: Book/Print
label: Type
content: Book/Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Overall: 19.1 x 55.9 x 41.9 cm (7 1/2 x 22 x 16 1/2 in.)