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 three panels, and an arched sculpted lunette or tympanum. The lunette features gadrooning and lamb’s tongue molding with a central mask of a man wearing a lion’s skin (possibly Hercules), and a festoon of leaves. Below the lintel is decorated with a laurel leaf and ribbon molding. The corbel and central frame are decorated with laurel and acanthus leaf motifs. The upper panels of the doors are small and rectangular, framed by molding and featuring interlaced sprigs with leaves tied with ribbons. Below fluting and lamb’s tongue molding. The central panels are also plain with a knocker on the right side. The lower section of the doors is decorated with interlaced wood paneling or parquetry. 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: 1921-6-353-8
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