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Bookends
ca. 1780
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Pair of bookends (a & b). Each architectonic, L-shaped, stepped and curved green/black granite base with applied gilt bronze cornucopia, be-ribboned and spilling forth fruit, foliage and flowers; three-sided, rectangular band of gilt bronze molding just below joint of vertical and horizontal granite elements.
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Details
- Title: Bookends
- Date Created: ca. 1780
- Location Created: France
- Original Source: See this work of art on the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum website
- Medium: Gilt bronze, granite
- Credit line: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
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