Plate 3, "Decoration de cheminée pour un grand Apartement"
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: A simple mantelpiece with voluted outline with a rectangular painting above it depicting seated Apollo with an amor. Decoration of scrollwork on upper part of the frame. Paneling flanking fireplace consists of rectangular fields in sequence without any special ornamentation. Below, profiles of molding. Inscribed, upper margin: "Decoration d'une Cheminée sans glace, à l'usage d'une Anti-chambre"; lower right: "Mariette excudit"; lower left: "3".
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: 1959-85-39
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: 41.4 × 27.8 cm (16 5/16 × 10 15/16 in.)