Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- A variation of "le Portugal" wall decoration and pier mirror showing a tall center pier mirror flanked with candelabra, rococo console, and table below. On wall at left, a wall bracket with a large covered vase at top, two small covered vases below, and a mask. At right, a wall bracket with nude male bearded figure holding a sheaf of wheat (?).
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 1695–1750
- Publisher
- Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
- Engraver
- Gabriel Huquier, French, 1695–1772
- Date
- 1740
- Credit Line
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Medium
- Engraving on white laid paper
- Dimensions
- Platemark: 36.5 × 25.7 cm (14 3/8 × 10 1/8 in.)
- Sheet: 59.1 × 40.6 cm (23 1/4 × 16 in.)
- Type
- interiors
- Object Name
- Type
