Designs for Andirons and a Mantel
date: label: Date
content: 1777–78
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 and a mantel. The andirons are decorated with vases, foliate branches, scrolling leaves (rinceaux), a wave motif frieze, hunting motifs (horns, horn, rifle, drum, and a dog), fluting, basket, flowers, and a putto holding a bird. On the center of the mantle is a frame, oval picture with a standing figure, leaves, measuring device, flutes, and a festoon or swag of foliate branches. 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: 1921-6-482-40
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 × 29.8 cm (18 1/8 × 11 3/4 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 37.7 × 23.9 cm (14 13/16 × 9 7/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 35.1 × 21.3 cm (13 13/16 × 8 3/8 in.)