Desseins de Brasiers dont les Ornements peuuent Seruir aux Cuuettes, Tables, et autres Ouurages d'Orfeurerie, Plate 1

Alexis Loir|Pierre Mariette le fils

1660–1713 · Etching · Drawings and Prints

Plate 1 of a series of designs for braziers, tables and other silverware works. The left side of the design shows a brazier supported by a faun. On the right side, the brazier is supported by a half figure of a woman. Her lower half is scrolling foliage and she is pointing at the title of the series written on a drapery. On the plate are also grotesque masks, a sphinx, a griffin and other designs for braziers incorporating half figures.

Artist

Alexis Loir|Pierre Mariette le fils

Date

1660–1713

Medium

Etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949