Plate from "Nouveaux Dessins de Gueridons dont les pieds sont propres pour des croix, chandeliers, chenets et autres ouvrages d'orfevrerie et de sculpture"
Artist and engraver Alexis Loir French
Publisher Nicolas Langlois II French
Not on view
Three designs for gueridons. The one on the left is characterized by volutes and half-figures as caryatids, on acanthus leaves. The center design presents two female heads on volutes with garlands. The foot of the design shows two sphinxes. The design on the right is decorated with two children's torsos and two children holding hands.