Chimney Piece Design
date: label: Date
content: 1647
name: label: Designer
content: D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647
label: Publisher
content: Madeleine de Colemont, French, d. 1664
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a chimneypiece and overmantel in the form of a classical temple façade with classical baroque motifs including statues of women on plinths, festoons of leaves, fluted pilasters, a frieze with rosettes, and animal skulls, and a round cartouche above with a cipher framed by a festoon of leaves and palm leaves. The moldings and sculpted motifs feature leaves, acanthus leaves, ribbons, egg pattern, rosettes, foliate branches, and masks (mascarons). The plate is numbered.
place: label: made in
content: France
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: 1921-6-446-12
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper