Ceiling Design
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1730
name: label: Designer
content: Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754
label: Publisher
content: Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A design for a rectangular ceiling, with variations to the design on each side. In the center the lower half of ceiling rosace decorated with strapwork, floral, palmette, fleurons c-scroll and s-scroll and acanthus leaf scroll motifs. Each corner of the cornice is decorated with a cartouche framed by arabesque strapwork, trophies, palmettes, masks, c-scrolls, s-scrolls, fleurons, shell, gadrooning and floral motifs. The cartouches surround mythological figures and scenes. With some decoration along the sides of the cornice between the corner cartouches. The plate is numbered and signed.
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: 1921-6-374-7
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