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Print, Projet de Sculpture en Argent d'un Grand Surtout de Table et les Deux Terrines...Executée pour Millord Kinston (sic) en 1735 (Design for Centerpiece and Two Tureens for the Duke of Kingston in 1735) plate 115 in Œuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier
This is a Print. It was designed by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier and etched by Gabriel Huquier and published by Gabriel Huquier. It is dated 1742–48 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is etching on off-white laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
This print of the Duke of Kingston’s centerpiece is one of 115 plates comprising Meissonnier’s Works catalogue, produced by the prolific and influential publisher, collector, printmaker, and print dealer Gabriel Huquier. The Works provided a wellspring of rococo design ideas for designers in France, Germany, England, the Netherlands, and elsewhere.
This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled Surf & Turf: A Silver Tureen for a Duke .
This object was
donated by
Advisory Council.
It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
- Drawing, Still-life with Fish and Parrot
- black and white chalk on blue laid paper.
- Museum purchase from Friends of the Museum Fund.
- 1938-66-1
- Print, Two Designs for Vase-Like Ornaments
- engraving on white laid paper.
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
- 1921-6-317-27
Its dimensions are
Open: 61 × 88.9 × 5.1 cm (24 × 35 × 2 in.) Platemark: 38.1 × 64.1 cm (15 in. × 25 1/4 in.)
Cite this object as
Print, Projet de Sculpture en Argent d'un Grand Surtout de Table et les Deux Terrines...Executée pour Millord Kinston (sic) en 1735 (Design for Centerpiece and Two Tureens for the Duke of Kingston in 1735) plate 115 in Œuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier; Designed by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (French, b. Italy, 1695–1750); Etched by Gabriel Huquier (French, 1695–1772); France; etching on off-white laid paper; Open: 61 × 88.9 × 5.1 cm (24 × 35 × 2 in.) Platemark: 38.1 × 64.1 cm (15 in. × 25 1/4 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-212-72
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibitions Rococo: The Continuing Curve 1730-2008 and The Huguenot Legacy: English Silver, 1680-1760 from the Alan & Simone Hartman Collection.
