Object Details
- Designer
- Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Left row: A candelabrum with a base like those in 1938-88-1468. Upon it a griffon crouch and support an ovoidal medallion with a lying putto. Winged half figures of children connect the medallion with an oblong frame with a female figure. Above it is a half figure supporting another ovoidal medallion. On top is a plant. Second row: two entwined garlands form an ovoid in which hangs a medallion. Third row: A plant candelabrum with a standing figure in the center and with an oblong framing a lozenge further up. Fourth row: A candelabrum in the scheme of a stem forming the frames of two ovoids and of an oblong in the center. Figures are in each of the three compartments. Above and below are oblongs. Fifth row: two parts of shells alternate four times with ovoids with figures. ABove and below only quarter of the shells are shown.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- ca. 1790
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-1471
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- interiors
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper
- Dimensions
- 26.9 x 19 cm (10 9/16 x 7 1/2 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_1938-88-1471
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4732f3c07-8cca-428f-a478-3313342b76ab
