Chimneypiece Designs
date: label: Date
content: 1711
name: label: Designer
content: Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711
label: Print Maker
content: Gérard Jean-Baptiste Scotin, French, 1671–1716
label: Publisher
content: Jacques Thuret, French, 1669–1738
label: Dedicatee
content: Jules Hardouin Mansart, French, 1646–1708
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Two chimneypiece designs. The chimneypiece on the left is set within a niche topped with a bust statue of Dionysus under an ivy-wound trellis with two winged putti. On the alter is a bas-relief of a triumph attended by satyrs. The chimneypiece on the right features a mascaron, garlands, a rondel with a scene of Orpheus or Apollo playing a lyre, sphinxes, and candelabra. Between the chimneypieces is a panel with a console table topped by a pendule, a cartouche, and grotesque ornamentation. The plate is signed and numbered.
place: label: made in
content: France
label: published in
content: Paris, France
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
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: 1921-6-201-102
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bound print
label: Type
content: Bound print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraving on laid paper