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Designation: Top: R-10, Zinc Rosette, Bottom: R-11
Material: Cast Zinc
Examples: Top: Perrault #351, Bottom: Bermudez #35
Typology: First Republic/Directoire/Empire
Details: Top: 2 ¼ inch dia., an angel framed
by rays Bottom: approx. 5 in. in dia., a sun face.These are
the only rosettes of their kind surviving in the cemetery.
Sources: Faces are occasionally incorporated in the designs
of French ironwork dating back to the 17th-C with the obvious
precedent of Louis XIV's "sun-king" motif. Several
examples are found in Berthaux's Le Parfait Serrurier. The
same ray-framed faces are used along with other symbols of
power during the 18th-C under Louis XVI, (Faure, p. 76). Here
the symbolism presumably has more to do with redemption.
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Le Roi Soleil Versailles Clouzot, p. 188
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