Designs for a Console Table and Wall Brackets
date: label: Date
content: mid- 18th century
name: label: Designer
content: Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754
label: Publisher
content: Louis Crépy, French, 1680?–1760
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A plate from a series of designs for console table legs, consoles for vases and wall brackets. A blank rectangle lower center, with a design for console table legs above ornamented with fleurons, c-and-scrolls, gadroon, acanthus leaves, strapwork, masks and palmette motifs with garlands of flwoers. The legs are in the shape of winged female herms with intertwined phoenixes or dragons. The feet are in the shape of hooves. Lower left: a wall bracket ornamented with rococo motifs, s-scrolls, fleurons and a mask, with the base of the supported vase in outline. Lower right: a wall bracket ornamented with a mask, c-scrolls, fleurons, and intertwined snakes. Supporting a vase and two incense burners in outline. The background is shaded with lines.
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: 1921-6-374-4
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