Four Incense Burners, a Bracket and an Ornemental Motif
date: label: Date
content: 1692–99
name: label: Designer
content: Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Recto: Vertical rectangle. Four incense burners of quasi-classical design, ornamented with half figures; a bracket composed of a mascaron; an ornamental motif consisting of a mascaron and rinceaux and another rinceau motif.
label: Description
content: Verso: Horizontal rectangle: a scene of classicals ruins in a landscape and two standing figures possibly inspired by a woodcut in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, published in Venice in 1499.
label: Description
content: One sheet of paper drawn on recto and verso, mounted onto an album page with window cutout to see verso.
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: Museum purchase through gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1960-102-5
objectType: label: Type
content: albums (bound) & books
label: Object Name
content: Album page
label: Type
content: Album page
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown ink with ink wash; verso: pen and brown ink
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 205 × 150 cm (6 ft. 8 11/16 in. × 59 1/16 in.)