Nouveaux Deisseins de Meubles et Ouvrages de Bronze et de Marqueterie Inventés et gravés par André Charles Boulle
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1715
name: label: Designer
content: André-Charles Boulle, French, 1642 – 1732
label: Print Maker
content: André-Charles Boulle, French, 1642 – 1732
label: Publisher
content: Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742
label: Bookbinder
content: Édouard Pagnant, French, 1852 – 1916
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Album containing a series of eight plates: title page and designs for furniture and decorative art featuring metalwork and marquetry. The designs include wall lights, candelabras, chandeliers, andirons (firedogs), desks, tables, mirrors, cabinets, candlestands, caskets, filing cabinets, desk sets, chest of drawers, clock cases (pedestal clock and wall clocks or cartel clocks), sculptures, pedestals, and brackets. The designs are titled, the plates and numbered, and signed by the publisher.
label: Description
content: Half binding natural calf and marbled paper boards, gold tooling on spine with lettering ‘A.C. BOULLE – NOUVEAUX DESSEINS DE MEUBLES’, marbled endpapers, with binder’s stamp ‘PAGNANT’ on upper left margin, verso of upper cover endleaf.
place: label: made in
content: France
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: 1921-6-449
objectType: label: Type
content: albums (bound) & books
label: Object Name
content: Album
label: Type
content: Album
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 28.8 × 43 × 1.3 cm (11 5/16 × 16 15/16 × 1/2 in.)