Plate 1, Decoration de Cheminée pour un grand Apartement
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1727
name: label: Designer
content: Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774
label: Publisher
content: Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A fireplace set into a shallow niche. The fireplace decorated with carved scrollwork at corners and in center. The mirror decorated heavily in upper part with flowers, scrolls, etc. and a circular painting depicting a triton with a girl. Below, profiles with wall molding with inscription. Inscribed, upper margin: "Decoration de cheminée pour un grand appartement / elle est logée … d'une croisée"; lower left center: "A Paris che Mariette".
place: label: made in
content: France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1959-85-37
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraving on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 41.5 × 27.6 cm (16 5/16 × 10 7/8 in.)