Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Design for four furniture knobs. The one on the upper left has bead course around the edge and stylized scrolling acanthus leaves within. The knob on the upper right has a band of small flowers around the edge, and an acanthus leaf rosette in the center. The knob on the lower left has ribbon twist on the outer edge, bead course, a field of small dots, bead course, and a small rosette in the center. The knob on the lower right has a bead course around the edge, and an acanthus leaf rosette within a lozenge in the center. The plate is signed and numbered.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96
- Print Maker
- Mathieu Nicolas Goulet de Saint-Morien, French, active late 18th c.
- Publisher
- Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794
- Date
- 1775-1788
- Credit Line
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Medium
- Etching on off-white laid paper
- Object Name
- Type
