Two Furniture Leg Designs
date: label: Date
content: 1775-1788
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: Two furniture leg designs, arranged horizontally on the page. The leg on the left has a top block with a carved wreath of flowers, a flat of bound laurel leaves, and a cove with vertical acanthus. The shaft of the leg is divided in three: the top features a festoon of drapery; the middle section is fluted; and the bottom has vertical acanthus leaves. The leg on the right has a top block with an inset rosette and beading, and ionic capital flat, carved leaves in the cove, and a bead shoulder. The leg is fluted, the top third in which there is repeating bead and leaf cabling. 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: 1921-6-278-15
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