Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Two designs for standing clocks or barometer. The design at top has a round face framed with bead course and draped with leaves. The base is lined with rosettes and there are pinecone finials on either side. The design at the bottom of the plate has a round face framed with lamb tongue ornamentation. It is topped by crossed branches, and has on its base a fasces, plumed helmets, and a pull drawer. It has four spherical feet. The plate is signed and numbered.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96
- Print Maker
- Augustin Nicolas Foin, French, 1726–c. 1759
- 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
