Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- A design for the upper section of wrought-iron gates and grilles with an ornamental gate crown featuring a blank coat of arms with two ovals on a draped textile, topped with a crown and two scepters. The gates feature wave patterns, acanthus leaves, ovals, rosettes, fleurons, and scrolling leaves. The plate is titled, numbered, and signed, with a scale above.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Laurent Desboeufs de Saint-Laurent, French, active 1763 – 1776
- Print Maker
- Jean Pelletier, French, born ca. 1736
- Publisher
- Le Père et Avaulez, Paris, 1772–1777
- Date
- 1772–77
- Credit Line
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Medium
- Etching and engraving on paper
- Object Name
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