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Album of Designs for Furniture (Beds, Chairs, Sofas, Stools) and Waistcoats

3 pp

Album of designs for furniture: canopy beds, chairs, armchairs, sofas, ottomans, daybeds, stools, and men’s embroidered waistcoats by Pierre Ranson, published in several series. Some of the series are incomplete, and some of the plates appear as duplicates (some of the waistcoats are hand-colored with watercolor). Bound in a late 18th-century or early 19th-century mottled calf binding with gilt do

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Album of Designs for Furniture and Ornament

3 pp

H x W: 35 × 27.5 cm (13 3/4 × 10 13/16 in.)

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Album of Designs for Garden Vases from Versailles, Trianon and Marly

3 pp

Album containing 26 ornament prints. Title page and 25 prints depicting individual lead and marble vases from the gardens at Versailles, Trianon and Marly, signed by the print maker Marie Michelle Blondel. Bound in an 18th-century mottled calf binding with gold tooling and marbled endpapers.

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Album of Designs for Gun Parts and Ornament

3 pp

H x W x D: 16.6 × 22.3 × 0.3 cm (6 9/16 × 8 3/4 × 1/8 in.)

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Album of Designs for Hand Fans with Maps

1 pp

Album of designs for hand fans illustrating maps framed within rococo borders.

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Album of Designs for Pendant Trophies

3 pp

Album of designs for Pendant Trophies from two printed series of twelve designs (including title pages) after R. Charpentier. The first series is incomplete in this album and the title page is from a later edition. Most of the trophies feature military themes with others related to sculpture and the arts.

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Album of Designs for Watchcase Lids or Medallions, Flowers, and Friezes

3 pp

An album of ornament prints with designs for watchcase lids or medallions with biblical subjects, alongside designs for flowers, and friezes. The plates are numbered and signed with an initial. The album also contains pasted-in designs for watchase lids or medallions with ornament and profile portraits from a different series of prints.

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Album of Designs with Putti after F. Boucher

3 pp

An Album with eight series of prints featuring putti in clouds and in landscapes after F. Boucher.

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Album of Ecclesiastical Metalwork Designs

3 pp

Album of designs for ecclesiastical metalwork, including candelabra, sanctuary lamps, balustrades, and architectural details featuring rococo motifs and putti (children). The title page is a copy in reverse of a cartouche (plate 4.A) designed by Peyrotte and engraved and published by Huquier from Nouveaux Cartouches Chinois (1921-6-522-4). The designer Germain lettered on the title page could poss

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Album of Exterior Door Designs

3 pp

Album of exterior door designs decorated with rococo ornament and motifs. Some of the designs appear multiple times but with slight variations to the plates, in terms of finish and titles. Copies of the series were published by J.F. Chereau, signed by Le Canu inv. and Daumont exc. (1760-90) instead of Mansart and Charpentier. At least one of the plates in this album have had the signatures taken o

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Album of Festival Prints

3 pp

An album of festival prints depicting ephemeral structures built as part of festivities, illuminations and fireworks given by the city of Paris in honor of various events, including a royal marriage, and military victories.

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Album of Figure Studies

3 pp

An album with four books (not all complete) from a series of 14 volumes of figure studies for the education of artists or amateurs, with instructions on some of the plates. Printed in crayon-manner with red ink.

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Album of Designs for Furniture (Beds, Chairs, Sofas, Stools) and Waistcoats

Album of Designs for Furniture and Ornament

Album of Designs for Garden Vases from Versailles, Trianon and Marly

Album of Designs for Gun Parts and Ornament

Album of Designs for Hand Fans with Maps

Album of Designs for Pendant Trophies

Album of Designs for Watchcase Lids or Medallions, Flowers, and Friezes

Album of Designs with Putti after F. Boucher

Album of Ecclesiastical Metalwork Designs

Album of Exterior Door Designs

Album of Festival Prints

Album of Figure Studies