Designs for Buffets
date: label: Date
content: ca.1680–1710
name: label: Architect
content: Pierre Cottart, French, ca. 1630 – 1701
label: Publisher
content: Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Designs for two buffets. To the right, a buffet set within an arched niche for the display of jugs, vases, bowls, plates, cups, and a clock on shelves with brackets with a console table below at the dado level. The top of the arch is decorated with a crowned cartouche with a festoon of fleurons. The upper levels of the walls are decorated with molded panels with a diaper and rosette pattern. The buffet is flanked by two different wall fountains. To the right the fountain is ornamented with shell, mask, strapwork, and s-scroll motifs, with the water pouring into a rectangular basin below. The fountain to the left consists of a sculpted urn or vase, with a winged putto sitting on top, holding a candle, with a sculpted plaque above. The water pours out of a mask’s mouth into a circular shallow basin below. To the left a design for a buffet or armoire to store plates and crockery. The doors are opened and decorated with rococo motifs, scrolling acanthus leaves, fleurons, strapwork, quivers of arrows and a central cartouche with a vase framed by a garland of leaves and rosettes. The lower half of the armoire is tiered and has three shallow drawers. A large vase of flowers and fruit sits on the top shelf. The back of the armoire is decorated with a diaper pattern with rosettes. Each design is titled, with a scale below. The plate is numbered and signed.
place: label: made in
content: France
label: published in
content: Paris, France
label: place depicted
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: 1921-6-353-10
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