Design for Baptismal Font
Object Details
- Designer
- Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- The bowl is a variation of that in -1405. The lid has the shape of a support, with a wider diameter below than above, where a row of four (three are visible) cherubim supports a kind of base with a cross on top. Beside the pedestal are cornices with inwards turned spirals and with palm branches laid upon them. Usual background.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- ca. 1775
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-1407
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper
- Dimensions
- 27.3 x 18.5 cm (10 3/4 x 7 5/16 in.)
- made in
- Rome, Italy
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1938-88-1407
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq407be5f53-c837-48c4-8eb2-cf9b1c95b28d
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