Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Designs
date: label: Date
content: mid- 18th–late 18th century
name: label: Designer
content: Jean Mansart de Jouy, French, 1705 - 1783
label: Publisher
content: Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Poilly, de, French, 1707 – 1780
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Designs for a chimney piece (fireplace, overmantel mirror, and painting above) illustrated as a detailed wall elevation with two different options in the design (split in half). The designs feature rococo ornament and motifs, with c-scrolls, shells, fleurons, clasps, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), foliage, cartouches, flowers, sprigs, rosettes, gadrooning, feathers, palmettes, and palm leaves. The left side design for the fireplace features an ornately decorated back-plate and side-plate, with an andiron in the shape of a dragon. The left side of the overmantel mirror is flanked by a narrow panel featuring a two-candled wall sconce and a vase or ewer on a wall bracket. The right side of the overmantel mirror frame incorporates a women’s head with wings and ostrich feathers in her hair as a terminal figure in the top right corner, and a two-candled wall sconce. The painting above depicts a man and a woman in a landscape seated together, and is framed by ornately sculpted moulding designs. Wall Paneling (boiserie) options flank the chimney piece with large vertical panels, with small rectangular panels above and a dado level below. The plate is numbered and signed, with a scale below.
place: label: made in
content: France
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: 1921-6-357-5
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