Ceiling Designs
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1730
name: label: Designer
content: Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754
label: Publisher
content: Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A design for a ceiling with variations to the design in each corner and sides. Only the cornice is ornamented with rococo motifs – cartouches, fleurons, palmettes, c-scrolls, s-scrolls, fretwork, masks, gadrooning, flowers, leaves, vases, putti, and figures within the cartouches. The upper half of a ceiling rosace in the center, ornamented with similar motifs. The plate is numbered and signed.
place: 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: 1921-6-374-9
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