POELE d’un même genre, en colonnes tronquées, avec trophées, et surmonté d’un buste de Pallas
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1791
name: label: Print Maker
content: Louis-Gustave Taraval, French, 1738 – 1794
label: Designer
content: Louis Bosse, French, active ca. 1767 – 1777
label: Publisher
content: Louis François Ollivier, French, 1752 – 1810
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a stove heater decorated with neoclassical motifs, in the form of a pedestal supporting a column with a sculpted portrait bust of the goddess Pallas wearing a feathered helmet. The pedestal features a shield on the front decorated with flames, lightning bolts, and wings, with swords, and a lion’s pelt behind. The base of the pedestal is decorated with running pattern moldings of fluting, laurel leaves tied with ribbon, and rosettes. The base below the pedestal has a laurel leaf crown tied with ribbon. The whole is set into an arche niche. The plate is signed.
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: 1921-6-407-29
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on paper
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 41.5 × 26.3 cm (16 5/16 × 10 3/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 32.9 × 19 cm (12 15/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 31.7 × 17.7 cm (12 1/2 × 6 15/16 in.)