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

Alexis Loir French
 Publisher Pierre Mariette le fils French

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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.

Plate 1, from "Desseins de Brasiers dont les Ornements peuuent Seruir aux Cuuettes, Tables, et autres Ouurages d'Orfeurerie", Alexis Loir (French, 1640–1713), Etching

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