Design for a Ceiling
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Part of a ceiling shown. At center, a blank octagonal frame flanked laterally with rectangles, the right one with scrolling ornament. Below two lozenge-shapes are decorated with putti and arabesques. At center, a mermaid. Frames are decorated with guilloche and rosettes. Two larger rosettes at the lower corners.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors
- 16th century
- Accession Number
- 1901-39-1621
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- interiors
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink with brown, blue and yellow wash Support: off-white paper on secondary paper support
- made in
- 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_1901-39-1621
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4ed0d5e59-f372-4b8b-8c19-2a803ca48bbc
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