Decoration de Lambris d’une Chambre de parade du côté de la Cheminée
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1765
name: label: Publisher
content: André Basset, French, active 1749 – 1787
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: An interior wall elevation with a central chimneypiece, a tapestry mounted to the wall to the right, and a set of double-doors with an over-door painting and paneling decorated with rococo ornament. The paneling is decorated with acanthus leaf, shell, c-scroll, strapwork, and floral motifs. The over-mirror and over-door paintings are set into oval frames. The tapestry depicts a landscape set into a woven rococo frame with cartouches in the corners with a framing diaper pattern. Part of a fluted pilaster with a Corinthian capital is depicted in the far right. A plain dado level with molding below. The plate is titled, and details depicted in the elevation are lettered with a legend below, along with a scale.
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: 1921-6-237-11
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