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 in each corner and side. Only the cornice is ornamented with corner cartouches surrounded by rococo motifs, palmettes, c-scrolls, s-scrolls, fleurons, and gadrooning. Within the cartouches, different scenes with figures, putti, and profile portraits. Along the cornice between each corner is more ornament, incorporating rococo motifs, masks, animals, putti, c-scrolls, s-scrolls, fleurons, flowers, and trophies. 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: 1921-6-374-8
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