A Mantel and Overmantel Mirror Design
date: label: Date
content: 1755–76
name: label: Designer
content: Jean-François-Antoine Boulanger, French?, active mid 18th century
label: Print Maker
content: D.M, active 18th century
label: Publisher
content: Gilles Demarteau, Flemish, 1722 – 1776
label: Publisher
content: Geneviève-Marguerite Chéreau, French, active 1755-1768, d.1782
label: Publisher
content: Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A design for a mantel and overmantel mirror surmounted by a carved panel with two putti and two lidded pear-shaped vases decorated with rococo ornament, rinceaux, shell, ribbons, flowers, fluting, cartouches, c-scrolls, s-scrolls, festoons of laurel leaves, and fleurons. The mantel also features a candelabra on each side with three candles. The plate is numbered and signed.
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: 1921-6-419-6
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper