Cippes pour porter des Bustes
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1775
name: label: Designer
content: Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782
label: Print Maker
content: Nicolas Dupin, French, active 18th century
label: Publisher
content: Le Père et Avaulez, Paris, 1772–1777
label: Publisher
content: Charles Le Pere, French, active 1772 – 1777
label: Publisher
content: Pierre-Michel Avaulez, French, active 1772 – d. 1777
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Designs for two pedestals to support sculpted busts. The pedestal on the left is decorated with ornament motifs including a meander, rosette, crossed bound leaves, fluting, and lamb tongue. The pedestal on the right is decorated with bands of lamb tongue, guilloche of rosettes, and ribbon twist at the top, and bound leaves at the bottom. The plate is 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: 1921-6-252-63
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraving on off white laid paper