Designs for a Console Table and Wall Brackets
date: label: Date
content: mid- 18th century
name: label: Designer
content: Nicolas Pineau, French, 1684-1754
label: Publisher
content: Louis Crépy, French, 1680?–1760
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A plate from a series of designs for console table legs, consoles for vases and wall brackets. A blank rectangle lower center, with a design for console table legs above ornamented with fleuron, c-and-scrolls, gadroon, acanthus leaves, and floral motifs, a central cartouche with a vase of flowers and dragons intertwined in both legs, with the legs terminating in hoofs. Lower left: a console for a vase, decorated with winged putti holding up the outlined vase on a stand ornamented with rococo motifs. Lower right: a design for a wall bracket ornamented with fluting, fleurons, c-and-s-scrolls, and shell motifs, supporting three outlined vases. The background is shaded with lines.
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: 1921-6-374-2
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