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date: label: Date
content: 1700-1742
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: Chimneypiece design with over-mirror mantel and richly ornamented paneling. The mantle is decorated with carved, grotesque heads on either side, and a scallop motif in the center. On either side of the mirror, above the mantle, are engaged candelabra; on the left is a two-arm candelabra held up by a putto sitting on a grotesque motif; on the right is a two-arm candelabra held up by a male herm wearing a headdress. At the top of the mirror are winged herms emerging from scrolls, and garlands draping from a central cartouche with two putti releasing birds into the air. The panel at the left, from bottom to top, features a carved vase with flowers, grotesque borders, an oval with a profile portrait in it, over which is a baldachin. Above this carved paneling is another panel featuring an image of a young woman with a bared breast and two cupids, one with a bow. The panel on the right, from bottom to top, features carved grotesque ornamentation of scrolls and leaves. Above this panel is an image of a young woman with bared breast, plucking the arrow out of the hands of one of the two cupids pictured. At the bottom of the plate is a cross section for the "Plan du Chambranle" and the scale bar of four French feet ("4 pieds"). The plate is signed but only faintly numbered.
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: 1921-6-243-15
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