Title Page
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1730
name: label: Designer
content: Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754
label: Publisher
content: Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page for a series of ceiling designs. The title is lettered along the upper margin within the plate. Within the center, a large design for an oval ceiling with the lower half of a ceiling rosace decorated with fleurons, c- scrolls, s-scrolls, floral motifs and strapwork. The cornice is highly decorated with a changing design, incorporating putti within an arabesque design of garlands of flowers, c-scrolls, s-scrolls, masks, fleurons, strapwork, trophies, portrait roundels, mythological animals, and figures. The plate is signed, with the address.
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: 1921-6-374-6
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