Cahier de Balançoires Chinoises
date: label: Date
content: 1770–1780
name: label: Designer
content: Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French, 1728–1808
label: Print Maker
content: Jean-Jacques Avril the Elder, French, 1744 - 1831
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Two Chinese figures balance on either end of a see-saw in round wicker-backed chairs. Top: "B"; bottom: "Cahier de Balancoires Chinoises / Inventées et Dessineés par J. Pillement / Premier Peintre de Roi de Pologne / Gravée par J. J. Avril / A Paris / chez Dalmon rue Fromenteau en façe du Louvre / A Paris chez Chereau rue des Mathurins". Two framing lines.
place: label: made in
content: France
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1920-36-180
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 41.6 × 29.7 cm (16 3/8 × 11 11/16 in.)