Title Page: Fireplace (Chimney Piece and Mantel) Designs
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1767
name: label: Designer
content: Pierre Moreau, French, 170? – 1762
label: Print Maker
content: Pierre Moreau, French, 170? – 1762
label: Publisher
content: Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Poilly, de, French, 1707 – 1780
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Title page and design for a chimney piece (fireplace and overmantel mirror) illustrated as a detailed wall elevation. The design features rococo ornament and motifs, c-scrolls, shells, scrolling leaves (rinceaux) fleurons, foliage, palm leaves, garlands and festoons of flowers, masks (mascarons), cartouches, clasps, hanging trophies, and stick and ribbon molding. The curvilinear mantel features a central asymmetrical cartouche. The fireplace includes an ornately decorated back-plate, with andirons in the shape of dragons. On either side of the fireplace at the dado level, are two wall pedestals supporting lidded vases. The arched overmantel mirror frame includes two-candled wall sconces, and male busts as terminal figures on the upper corners. The narrow wall paneling (boiserie) flanking the chimney piece is decorated with ornate molding, hanging trophies representing love with bows, quivers of arrows and flaming torches, and landscape paintings. The cornice includes a central cartouche featuring putti and lined with corbels. The plate is numbered, titled, 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: 1921-6-357-7
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