Coffre à Bijoux
date: label: Date
content: 1774–88
name: label: Designer
content: Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790
label: Print Maker
content: Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790
label: Publisher
content: Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794
label: Publisher
content: Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790
label: Dedicatee
content: Anne Louise Caroline de Goyon de Matignon, French, 1774 – 1846
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a jewelry box that could be made in silver, gold, or porcelain, decorated with neoclassical motifs and ornament, including a cartouche with a scene depicting women holding cornucopia and vases and a man in a chariot pulled by horses, framed by a floral running pattern, scrolling leaves, (rinceaux), herms, or female terminal figures, rosettes, foliate branches, and cornucopia of shells, and coral. The lid features leaf and gadrooning running patterns. Corners are decorated with putti and the base, a fluted running pattern with fleurons and leaf motifs. The plate is titled, numbered, and signed.
place: label: made in
content: France
label: published in
content: Paris, 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: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1921-6-310-50
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on paper