Ceiling Design
date: label: Date
content: 1785-1788
name: label: Designer
content: Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96
label: Print Maker
content: C. Le Meunié, French, active 1770–1786
label: Publisher
content: Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Oval ceiling design. The ceiling is split along the vertical axis to offer two designs. On the left, the frame features bound oak leaf and lamb tongue bands, and has monogram rondels in the corners, framed by horns of plenty. The panel on the left has a thin thyrsus wrapped with a guilloche of leaves, and a wreath of crossed horns in its center. The right-side frame of the ceiling is carved with flowers and has bands of lamb tongue; there are lyres in the corners, and the panel on the right has a shallow gadrooned bowl with crosses thyrses behind it and garlands of flowers. The plate is signed, but the plate is trimmed and the numbering is not visible.
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: 1921-6-330-74
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