Royal Jewel Cabinet with Sèvres Plaques
date: label: Date
content: 1825–1826
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756
label: Manufacturer
content: Godin (probably the younger), French, active late eighteenth/early nineteenth centuries
label: Designer
content: Jean-Charles-François Leloy, French, 1774–1846
label: Designer
content: Alexandre-Evariste Fragonard, French, 1780–1850
label: Director of Production
content: Alexandre Brongniart, French, 1770–1847
label: Director of Production
content: Vicomte (Sostène) de La Rochefoucauld, French, 1785–1864
label: Patron
content: Charles X, King of France, French, 1757–1836
label: Executor
content: Pierre Huard, French, active 1811–1847
label: Mount Maker
content: Boullemier le jeune (the younger), probably Antoine-Gabriel Boullemier (French, 1781-1842) and Boullemier l'ainé (the elder), probably Francois Antoine Boullemier (French, 1773-1838), French, active 1825–1826
label: Mount Maker
content: Louis-Honoré Boquet, French, active Sèvres 1816–ca. 1860
label: Painter
content: Pierre Huard, French, active 1811–1847
label: Painter
content: Riton, French, active 1825–1826
label: Painter
content: Antoine Béranger, French, 1785 - 1867
notes: label: Description
content: Upright cabinet made of porcelain plaques in a gilt-bronze armature, of two sections; the upper section with two large doors and a peacock crest, the lower section projecting forward with a glass top, supported on two ceramic columns, and containing two drawers. The porcelain plaques painted with allegorical and naturalistic ornament, featuring two large roundels on the doors with cameo-like images of Psyche (left) and Venus (right). Bronzework and porcelain ornamented throughout with neoclassical motifs including swags, volute scrolls, grotesques, and palmettes.
place: label: Place
content: France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of the Reverend Alfred Duane Pell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1991-31-2
objectType: label: Type
content: furniture
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: cabinet
label: Type
content: cabinet
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: mahogany, platinum, glass, bronze, gold, hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 185 x 107 x 60 cm (6 ft. 13/16 in. x 42 1/8 in. x 23 5/8 in.)