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Drawing, Architectural Fantasy: A Circular Temple on a Truncated Pyramid
This is a Drawing. It was created by Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain. It is dated mid-18th century and we acquired it in 1911. Its medium is brush and gray and brown wash, over black chalk on off-white laid paper with additions at top and bottom, lined with cardboard and border of blue laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
This object was
donated by
Advisory Council.
It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
![Here we have an octagonal, pyramid-shaped perfume bottle. Made of dark blue molded glass, it is overall symmetrical in body and has an elegant gold accent underneath the matching octagonal pyramid stopper. Gently tapering upward, underneath the bottle's neck there is a straight geometric band sandwiching a rectangle motif, and the word 'Agnes' carved into the front. Sloping inward in one continuous piece, the neck transitions into a stout cylinder shape with a gold tie around it. Above that is a thin octongal layer, another small, cylindrical division for the continuing gold tie, and finally the bottle's stopper on top. The stopper is the same shape and has the same angled cuts as the pyramid body, just a smaller version.The neck's divisions seem to be for the gold tie's ornamentation and layered tying. The texture of string or even straw, the tie winds tightly around the first cylinder on the neck, and forms a v shape as it transitions into the second cylindrical division. At the end of the tie, along the main pyramid's body, the tie hangs loosely with a spade-shape gold logo. The logo is embossed with curtain ropes and sits underneath a simple wave and leaf design, framing the words [Alleluia d'Amour, Agnes, Paris]. Under the logo, the tie frays and unravels in a neat fan.](https://images.collection.cooperhewitt.org/325316_79a41b5a1189eb41_n.jpg "Object ID #907216363")
- Object ID #907216363
- molded glass.
- Christie Mayer Lefkowith Collection.
- 69.2016.4
Its dimensions are
27.9 x 22.5 cm (11 x 8 7/8 in.)
It has the following markings
Cooper Union Musuem mark at the lower right corner on the recto Cooper Union Museum stamp on the verso
It is signed
Signed in pen and black ink at lower right corner: LL
Cite this object as
Drawing, Architectural Fantasy: A Circular Temple on a Truncated Pyramid; Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain (French, 1715–1759); France; brush and gray and brown wash, over black chalk on off-white laid paper with additions at top and bottom, lined with cardboard and border of blue laid paper; 27.9 x 22.5 cm (11 x 8 7/8 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1911-28-506
