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Projet de grand Chandelier à branche pour le Roy., Chandelier à cinq branches avec un dragon, 2nd Plate
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier1740
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Candelabra with five arms decorated with acanthus leaves, a putto leaning out from the stem, a dragon below, set on a base with a central cartouche.
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- Title: Projet de grand Chandelier à branche pour le Roy., Chandelier à cinq branches avec un dragon, 2nd Plate
- Creator: Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier
- Creator Lifespan: 1695/1750
- Date Created: 1740
- Type: Print
- Rights: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Medium: Engraving on white laid paper
- Provenance: Jean Léon Decloux (Decloux 173)
- Paper Support: White laid paper
- Inscribed: Inscribed on plate, upper left: L; upper right: 68; lower left: J.A. Meissonnier inv.; lower center: Projet de grand Chandelier à branche pour le Roy.; lower right: Huquier Sculp. et ex. St. Jacque C.P.R.
- Dimensions: Platemark: 32.3 x 20.8 cm (12 11/16 x 8 3/16 in.)
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