Chimney Piece Design
date: label: Date
content: 1647-55
name: label: Designer
content: D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647
label: Print Maker
content: D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647
label: Publisher
content: Madeleine de Colemont, French, d. 1664
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a chimney piece (fireplace, mantel and overmantel) with classical motifs. The mantel is framed by a leaf and ribbon sculpted molding, flaming vases, and egg and dart molding. The overmantel features a geometric meander frieze, two vases, sphynx, a cartouche, a round medallion depicting the interior of a classical temple with figures, framed by herms (male torsos on top of tapered pedestal), supporting a cornice frieze of brackets and crowns. A scale below. The plate is numbered.
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: 1921-6-446-57
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper