Designs for Andirons and a Mantel
date: label: Date
content: 1778
name: label: Designer
content: Henri Sallembier, French, ca. 1753 - 1820
label: Print Maker
content: Jacques Juillet, French, 1739- after 1784
label: Publisher
content: Émilie-Louise Avaulez, French, active 1777 – 1779
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Designs for two andirons (firedogs) with military and geography motifs and a mantel featuring neoclassical ornament including an oval profile portrait, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), foliate scrolls, fluting, putti holding a globe with a putto on top, a vase, incense burner, book, measuring devices, spears with flags, helmet, seated figures with a military trophy above with armor, helmet, and shields, scrolling foliate frieze, and rosettes. 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: 1921-6-482-46
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on paper
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 46.1 × 29.6 cm (18 1/8 × 11 5/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 36.8 × 23.6 cm (14 1/2 × 9 5/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 35.3 × 21.7 cm (13 7/8 × 8 9/16 in.)