Pomme de Canne
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 six metal walking stick handles. The handles feature, clockwise from top left, gadrooning, bound leaf, drapery, garland, fluting with decorated channels; and wave band; ribbon twist with acanthus leaves and bead course, fluting, draped floral garland, lozenge with infilled rosettes, and spiraling arabesque; lancet lead, bead course, acanthus leaf, and spiral fluting; lamb tongue, wrap-around leaf, lancet leaf, and bead course; acanthus leaf, bead course, spiral fluting with decorated channels, and bound leaf; and gadrooning, bead course, leaf branch, spiral acanthus leaf ornamentation. 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: 1921-6-278-115
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