Chimneypiece Design with Side Paneling
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: Chimneypiece design with over mantle mirror. On either side of the shelf along the mirror are engaged candelabra held up by winged half-figures. The peak of the mirror is bow shaped and features a mascaron at its center. Above the mirror is an oval rondel with a mythological scene of Danaë. This rondel is set within a panel with a lozenge patten inset with quatrefoils. The left side panel is ornamented with carvings featuring sphinxes, figures blowing horns, and a vignette of a young woman and older man making a sacrifice at a flaming altar. Above them two half-figures hold aloft a baldaquin; the figures' headdresses fuse with the ornamentation. The right-side panel is carved with intertwining straps and acanthus leaves, on which sit two swans and a bouquet of flowers. The frieze at the top features a repeating ornamental pattern of sphinxes, birds, and cornucopia. The plate is numbered and signed with the publisher's name.
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: 1921-6-243-4
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper