Design for Two Gilt Bronze Chandeliers
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Object Details
- Artist
- Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French, 1749–1825
- Designer
- François-Joseph Belanger, French, 1744–1818
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Design for two chandeliers. Left, is a chandelier with a lyre as the shaft. Branches of bottom row of candle shafts form French horns and top branches of candle shafts form flower boughs. Right, is a chandelier with the shaft formed by four children standing on fantastic birds, which, in turn, stand on a sphere. Sockets for candles are placed in the children's hands and on the heads of the birds.
- Credit Line
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- 1777
- Accession Number
- 1921-6-62
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- lighting
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper, lined with paper and framed with brown paper stripe
- Dimensions
- 20.5 x 29.3 cm (8 1/16 x 11 9/16 in.)
- designed in
- France
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1921-6-62
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq49fc5560a-13c2-42bd-a461-ac13b4a28a35
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