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 at left has a top block with a rosette carved on top of an oval medallion. The top flat is comprised of bound laurel leaves, and the shaft of the leg is wavy and bound by cloth-looking x's. The leg at right has a top block with a ribbon-rosette pierced by arrows, a cove of vertical feathers, egg gadrooning at the shoulder, and spiral fluting and lancet lead ornamentation on the shaft. The plate is signed and the numbering appears to have been cut off at the bottom with the trimming of the page. In comparison with other version of the plate, it should be numbered C3.
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: 1921-6-278-16
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