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date: label: Date
content: 1775-1788
name: label: Designer
content: Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96
label: Print Maker
content: Mathieu Nicolas Goulet de Saint-Morien, French, active late 18th c.
label: Publisher
content: Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Designs for two doorknockers showing their front and profile views, and their rosette plates on either side. The knocker on the left has a pinecone finial at top, a vertical band of pilastre, a garland of flowers, and drapery at the bottom. The knocker on the right has a simple bead detail at the hinge, a vertical strand of acanthus leaf with bead detailing down the center, and a garland of flowers at the bottom. The plate is signed and numbered.
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: 1921-6-278-137
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