Design for Meuble de Vestibule
date: label: Date
content: 1873–79
name: label: Architect
content: Alexandre-Eugène Prignot, French, 1822–after 1875
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Wall elevation for entrance hall in renaissance-revival style (although it is called "genre Boulle" in published drawing, see bibliography). Lower portion consists of console decorated with panels with carved urns, masks and a garland. Two metal (?) ewers flank a metal (?) covered vase on lower opening. Central portion dominated by a large mirror with floral arrangement below, niches on either side decorated with caryatids on pilasters, cups in the mannerist style and tazzas below. Upper portion consists of open pediment with covered cup and a demi-lune carving with cartouche and date (1873), flanked by volute-figures reclining on garlands of fruit, a covered cup on base at each end. Cast shadows throughout.
place: label: made in
content: France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1987-86-2
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture, interiors
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite, color pencil, brush and watercolor on cream paper
label: Dimensions
content: 41.2 x 24.7 cm (16 1/4 x 9 3/4 in.)