Designs for Wall Lights (Wall Sconces)
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1715
name: label: Designer
content: André-Charles Boulle, French, 1642 – 1732
label: Print Maker
content: André-Charles Boulle, French, 1642 – 1732
label: Publisher
content: Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Nine designs for wall lights (wall sconces), including detailed sections of the wall lights with burning candles. The metalwork designs are decorated with ornament and motifs including a vase, ewer, basket of flowers, festoons of leaves, flowers, winged creatures (griffin), mascarons (masks), scrolling leaves, foliate scrolls, scrolling acanthus leaves, c-scrolls, s-scrolls, fleurons, fluting and gadrooning. The designs are titled, the plate is numbered, and signed by the publisher.
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: 1921-6-449-8
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 23.7 × 36.5 cm (9 5/16 × 14 3/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 21 × 30.5 cm (8 1/4 × 12 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 20.6 × 29.9 cm (8 1/8 × 11 3/4 in.)