Plate 12, from "Livre D'architecture de Porte et Cheminees"

Artist and engraver D. Antoine Pierretz French
Publisher Nicolas Langlois French

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Plate 12 of a series of designs for doors and mantel pieces. This design presents a mantel piece. Over the fireplace is a small rectangular frame with a drapery. On either side are foliate masks seen in profile. Over the mantel shelf are a fantastical mask, shields, arrows and quivers, and a rectangualr frame. On either side are consoles with hanging garlands.

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