Box or Snuffbox Design
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: Print Maker
content: Angélique Gabrielle Sélincart, French, active late eighteenth century
label: Publisher
content: Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a rectangular box or snuffbox showing, from top to bottom, the elevation of the lid, with bead course and draped floral garland; a top view of the lid, featuring an oval rondel of an eagle surrounded by floral garlands emerging from a basket at either end; and an elevation of the box with lid open at the hinge, decorated with a quiver in a central rondel, framed by a bead course, and with scrolling acanthus leaf ornamentation on either side. The plate is signed and numbered; the signature also includes that of Angélique Gabrielle Sélincart, the wife of de St. Morien.
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: 1921-6-330-127
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