Design for Two Gilt Bronze Chandeliers
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| Caption | 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. Designer: François-Joseph Belanger, French, 1744–1818. Date: 1770s. Record ID: chndm_1921-6-62. |
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| Creator | Jean Démosthène Dugourc, French (1749–1825) |
| Artwork medium | Pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper, lined with paper and framed with brown paper stripe |
| Credit | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
| Terms of use | Public Domain Dedication (CC0 1.0) |
| Search stock images by keyword | Design Gilt Bronze Chandeliers chandeliers chandelier lyre shaft Jean Démosthène Dugourc François-Joseph Belanger |
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