Design for a Buffet
date: label: Date
content: ca.1680–1703
name: label: Architect
content: Pierre Cottart, French, ca. 1630 – 1701
label: Publisher
content: Nicolas Langlois, French, 1640 - 1703
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for an interior wall elevation featuring a large buffet set into the wall and framed by paneling. The buffet consists of a large central arched niche with four bracketed shelves, with a console table at the dado level, flanked by two smaller arched niches also recessed into the walls, with three shelves. The central buffet has a large tureen on the bottom shelf and a clock on the top shelf. The side buffets include smaller wall fountains with mask heads as the water source. The paneling, dado, and cornice levels feature rococo ornament, c-scrolls, fleurons, acanthus leaves, beading, masks, diaper pattern, vases, and masks. A set of double doors to the right decorated with ornamental paneling, and a large frame to the left of the buffet, decorated with the same ornament and motifs. A scale below. The plate is titled and signed.
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: 1921-6-353-13
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