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Design for a Chimneypiece

A variation of the design of 1938-88-8206. The rinceaux spring from a palmette of ears of grain, with birds sitting beside. Shadow, background, base line, scale like that in 1938-88-8213. At left is the plan of the lateral part, at right, of the right half of the entablature.

Credit: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund...

1780-1800
Graphite, pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper
1938-88-8214
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020

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