Two Chimneypiece Designs
date: label: Date
content: 1727
name: label: Designer
content: Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774
label: Publisher
content: Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Two chimneypiece designs, each with over mantle mirrors. The chimneypiece on the left has a bow-shaped shelf, at the central point of which is a scallop form framed by scrolling acanthus leaves. The panel above the mirror features Minerva on a stepped pedestal; to her left is a putto with a compass and a globe, and to her right, a putto with a drawing pad. A garland of flowers is draped over the figures. The chimneypiece on the right features a rosette at the center of the shelf. There are sheep-headed candelabrum on either side of the mirror, as well as caryatids supporting the entablature. At the top of the mirror is a semicircle scene depicting a vestal making a sacrifice at a flaming altar. The plate is signed with the publisher's name and there is light indication in red of a plate number at the upper right plate.
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: 1921-6-243-3
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper