Title Page
date: label: Date
content: 1712
name: label: Publisher
content: François II de Poilly, French, 1666 – 1741
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page for a series of fireplace (chimney piece and mantel). The title is lettered within a wreath frame on the upper section of an overmantel mirror. The design is split in half with two different designs for the overmantel treatment and wall paneling (boiseries). The design features rococo ornament and motifs, floral diaper patterns, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), fleurons, running patterns for the molding, c-scrolls, strapwork, and palmettes. The mantel is marbled and the backplate decorated with a diaper pattern and interlaced L’s. There is a wall sconce with two candles to the left of the fireplace set within a narrow horizontal panel. The wall elevation features a central fireplace, marble mantle, overmantel mirror, or frame, with two different designs, and paneling above with a central motif, a narrow panel to the left and the start of another molded frame with a diaper floral pattern above, and a plain dado level below. There is a scale below and the publisher’s 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: 1921-6-386-1
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