# Design for a Large Centrepiece and Two Terrines in Silver [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MEISSONNIER, Juste-Aurèle]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Engraving ## Commentary Meissonnier was an ornamental decorator who produced almost everything: "plans of houses and salons, church facades and altars, centrepieces, fireworks, salt cellars and sword hilts, designs for wood carving, wind dials, silver objects and even a painted ceiling." The designs for centrepieces \(one of the is illustrated by this engraving executed by Gabriel Huquier\) that Messonnier supplied to goldsmiths displayed a convoluted verve suited to the flourishes of metalwork. This etching by Gabriel Huquier comes from a volume of plates after Meissonnier's work. The plates are, for the most part, the only record of Meissonnier's varied works in painting, sculpture, metalwork, and architecture. ## Related artworks - [Cabinet de Mr le Compte Bielinski, from 'Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier']() - [Design of a Couch for Count Bilenski]() - [Projet d'une grande Pendule, from 'Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier']() - [Three-branched candlestick]() - [Wall Clock \(Pendule\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()