Plate 2, "Decoration d'une Porte à placards à double ventaux"
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1727
name: label: Designer
content: Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774
label: Publisher
content: Jean Mariette, French, 1660–1742
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Two double doors within a joint arch. Both doors have a separate crowning rocaille volute above. Above, the overdoor with a painting surmounted by a carving of a female mask on a cartouche. Panels flanking doors with little volute and flower carving on top. Inscribed, along upper margin: title and 3 lines of explanation; lower left: "Mariette excudit"; lower right: "2". Explanation and inscriptions on the engraving.
place: label: made in
content: France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1959-85-32
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraving on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 41.5 × 27.8 cm (16 5/16 × 10 15/16 in.)