Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Rectangular ceiling design. The ceiling is split along the vertical axis to offer two designs. The ceiling frame on the left has bands of leaves and lamb tongue, and a carved central panel with torches, quivers, baskets, and wreaths of flowers. The right side has a larger band of carved scrolling acanthus leaves, thinner bands of lamb tongue and oak leaf, scallop shells in the corners, and a shallow vase filled with flowers in the center of the right edge. The plate is signed and numbered.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96
- Print Maker
- C. Le Meunié, French, active 1770–1786
- Publisher
- Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794
- Date
- 1785-1788
- Credit Line
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Medium
- Etching on off-white laid paper
- Object Name
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