Chimney Piece Design
date: label: Date
content: 1647
name: label: Designer
content: D. Antoine Pierretz, French, active 1647
label: Publisher
content: Madeleine de Colemont, French, d. 1664
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a Baroque chimneypiece with Classical motifs. The mantle is framed by a molding of laurel leaves and ribbon, topped with an acanthus leaf and gadrooning running patterns. An overmantel featuring a large roundel of a woman riding a centaur (half man half horse), framed by shell motifs and leaves. Two large standing sculptures of woman on plinths on either side, draped in a festoon of leaves, hanging from the center of the tympanum above. The tympanum is decorated with an oval cartouche and framed by molded running patterns. The plate is 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: 1921-6-446-9
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper