Designs for a Mantelpieces
date: label: Date
content: 1720
name: label: Artist
content: Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Three left halves of a mantelpiece. At left, "pr. Cabinet" includes a pair of snakes before a winged escutcheon top center, an eagle, top left. A candle in the wall panel. Center, "Second Cabinet" includes a sunface top center. Candle bracket with two candles supported by two snakes and scientific symbols adorn the wall panel. At right, "Salle Jud'enne" includes a pilaster with a bust of a woman with a diadem and a shawl.
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
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: 1911-28-239
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and black ink, pale green wash, over black chalk
label: Dimensions
content: 66.9 × 44.3 cm (26 5/16 × 17 7/16 in.)