Console Table Design
date: label: Date
content: 1785-1788
name: label: Designer
content: Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96
label: Print Maker
content: Augustin Nicolas Foin, French, 1726–c. 1759
label: Publisher
content: Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Elevation of four-legged console table with an inkwell, globe, and candle on top. The table has fluted, tapered legs topped with hybrid capitals. The front of the table is carved with scrolls and lion heads holding portrait medallions (on the left and right) and a helmet with shields and quiver in the center. A trophy with helmets, flags, fasces, a laurel wreath, and a shield with a gorgon head is placed on a low pedestal under the table. The plan view of the table is indicated directly under the elevation. Below the plan is a scale bar of three French feet ("Echelle de 3 Pieds"). The plate is not signed or numbered, although other versions of this plate indicate A. Foin as the print maker, and a plate number of E5.
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: 1921-6-278-26
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on off-white laid paper