Two Designs for Altars and a Frieze
date: label: Date
content: 1648
name: label: Designer
content: D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647
label: Print Maker
content: D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647
label: Publisher
content: Madeleine de Colemont, French, d. 1664
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Two designs for flaming altars and an ornamental frieze below featuring sculpted classical motifs including female figures, ram’s heads, arms and armor, masks (mascarons), festoons of leaves, vases, a griffin, egg and dart molding, fluting, and gadrooning. The plate is numbered.
place: label: made in
content: France
label: published in
content: Paris, France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1921-6-446-37
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper