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Design for Overmantel; recto, Plans of Moldings

Gilles-Marie Oppenordtca. 1720

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Slightly more than left half of overmantel with pilaster panel at left. The mirror frame with dragon in top center rises from top of mantel. Decoration of pilaster includes medallion with a lion in center. A fragment of section or plan with parts of letters, lower right. Inscribed at center right: Cheminée et Plaq(ard)/de la chambre a couch (er). Verso: in opposite direction, top: two rows of plans referring to consecutive moldings. Annoated in margin: Cadre des Pilastres; and A bottom; A bases (?) du Plaqcard.

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  • Title: Design for Overmantel; recto, Plans of Moldings
  • Creator: Gilles-Marie Oppenord
  • Creator Lifespan: 1672/1742
  • Date Created: ca. 1720
  • Type: Drawing
  • Rights: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
  • Medium: Pen and black ink, black chalk on paper
  • Signed: Signed in pen and black ink, center right: Oppenord's paraph
  • Provenance: Léon Decloux, Sèvres, France (in his collection in 1906)
  • Markings: Watermark: A (heart) C...in oval
  • Dimensions: 40.9 x 20.4 cm (16 1/8 x 8 1/16 in.)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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