Lit à la Reine
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
name: label: Designer
content: Pierre Ranson, French, 1736–1786
label: Print Maker
content: Jacques Juillet, French, 1739- after 1784
label: Publisher
content: Esnauts et Rapilly, French, active 1766 – 1804
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a crown canopy (baldachin) bed with the crown supported by two headboard poles and a back panel. The crown is toped with feather corner finials and a central vase with flowers, and ornamented with a trophy featuring the three fleurs-de-lys of the French coat of arms. Hanging textiles and bed curtains tied back with flowers, pearls, passementeries, and tassels. The backboard is decorated in the center with the head of Apollo (Ancient Greek and Roman deity) encircled by sunrays and fleurs-de-lys. The headboard is carved with scrolling acanthus leaves, a festoon of laurel leaves, and cornucopia of fruit. The bed linen is floral with hanging swags of textiles tied with ribbon and tassels on the skirt, with a background of stripes and fleurs-de-lys. The bed posts are carved with fluting, masks (mascarons), and rosettes. A scale below the design. The plate is titled, numbered, and signed.
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: 1921-6-395-52
objectType: label: Type
content: furniture
label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on blue paper