Design for a Buffet
date: label: Date
content: ca.1680–1710
name: label: Architect
content: Jean Berain, the elder, French, 1640-1711
label: Publisher
content: Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for an interior wall elevation featuring a large buffet set into the wall for the Parisian house of Mr. Begon, designed by Mr. Berin. The large central buffet is set into the wall with two smaller flanking buffets, also set into the wall, framed by sculpted molded frames, with shelves supported by brackets. The right half of the design shows inside of the shelves with vases, ewers, cups, and basins on display with a seated buddha figure in the upper center. The left half of the design shows the buffets closed from view with marble paneling. Pilasters divide each section of the wall, with more ornate capitals featuring masks and fleurons motifs on the left side. There is a console table in front of the central buffet with semi-circular basins in front of the side buffets, decorated with acanthus leaves. There is a scale below. The plate is titled, signed, and numbered.
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: 1921-6-353-14
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