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Designs for a Mantelpieces

Gilles-Marie Oppenordt1720

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Three left halves of a mantelpiece. At left, "pr. Cabinet" includes a pair of snakes before a winged escutcheon top center, an eagle, top left. A candel in the wall panel. Center, "Second Cabinet" includes a sunface top center. Candle bracket with two candles supported by two snakes and scientific symbols adorn the wall panel. At right, "Salle Jud'enne" includes a pilaster with a bust of a woman with a diadem and a shawl.

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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