Design for a Mantlepiece and Overmantle
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
name: label: Designer
content: Thomas Lainé, French, 1682 – 1739
label: Print Maker
content: Jean Joseph Balechou, French, 1719 – 1764
label: Publisher
content: Claude Niquet, French, active ca. 1769 – after 1831
label: Publisher
content: Dubois, French, active ca. 1769
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A printed sheet from a series of thirty designs for moldings, carved frames, doors, chimneys, and liturgical objects. A design for a mantlepiece and overmantle. The mantlepiece is marble, with a framed overmantle mirror above, framed one either side by carved panels. The side panels are decorated with acanthus leaves, rosettes, C-scrolls and margent ornament. The top of the mirror is semi-circular with a carved overmantle above. In the center of the over-mantle panel features the head of Apollo framed by shells ornamented with gadroons, acanthus leaves, flowers, and C-scrolls. Two vertical floral fretwork panels flank the central motif. Two freestanding small urns on socles above the side panels, flanking the central over-mirror panel. The plate is signed and numbered.
place: 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: 1921-6-236-17
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper