Design for Doors
date: label: Date
content: 1686–1740
name: label: Publisher
content: Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A design for a set of exterior double doors. Each door is decorated with four panels with an acanthus leaf frieze along the top. The central corbel and frame are decorated with acanthus leaves and a scrolling foliate running pattern. The upper panels are squared with a plain octagonal panel in the center framed by molding and leaf and acorn ornament in the corners. Below are rectangular panels featuring fleurons and festoons of flowers and leaves hanging from rosettes and ribbons. Below large plain vertical panels framed with molding. The right door has a knocker in the lower center of the plan vertical panel. The lower section of the doors features a trellis pattern. The plate is signed with a scale below the design.
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: 1921-6-353-7
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on laid paper