Wall Mirror Frame Designs
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1767
name: label: Designer
content: Jean Mansart de Jouy, French, 1705 - 1783
label: Publisher
content: Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Poilly, de, French, 1707 – 1780
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Designs for paneling (boiseries) featuring a central large wall mirror with two different options in the design (split in half). The designs feature rococo ornament and motifs. The mirror frame molding features palm leaves, festoons of flowers, c-scrolls, asymmetrical cartouches, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), foliage, shells, with a clasp in the center of bottom. Above the arched mirror, an intricately sculpted panel (boiserie), with a large central clasp and rocaille motifs. Below the mirror, plain molding and on either side, the edge of arched molded paneling, possibly for doors. The plate is numbered and signed, with a scale below.
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: 1921-6-357-11
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