Dessus du Couvercle de la Boite à Poudre
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: Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790
label: Publisher
content: Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794
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 lid (view from above) for a round powder box (part of a toilet service), decorated with three putti in the center, with festoons of flowers, bunches of wheat, and a bird, encircled by a frieze of scrolling leaves (rinceaux), rosettes, putti embracing, and fleurons. 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
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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: 1921-6-310-56
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