Design for a Niche with a Buffet
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
name: label: Designer
content: Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739
label: Print Maker
content: Jean Joseph Balechou, French, 1719 – 1764
label: Publisher
content: Claude Niquet, French, active ca. 1769 – after 1831
label: Publisher
content: Dubois, French, active ca. 1769
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A printed sheet from a series of thirty designs for moldings, carved frames, doors, chimneys, and liturgical objects. A design for a niche, with a buffet or cabinet set into the wall, an oval mirror above, flanked by wall mounted candelabra supported by female herms. Wall fountains flank the marble cabinet-top, set within the carved paneling. The fountains are made of mascarons, sprouting water or wine into a shallow basin supported by goats’ heads. The niche is decorated with carved paneling with fleurons, acanthus leaves, rosettes, mascarons, c-scrolls and flower ornament, fretwork, trophies, and carved molding. The cornice is also carved with similar motifs. A two-tiered marble toped buffet is set into the niche, with a cabinet below, with two plain panels, framed with acanthus and fleuron motifs in the corners, and larger carved decoration on the side panels. A scale of one to six is included below the design. The plate is signed and numbered.
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: 1921-6-236-25
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper