Design for a Hot Water Spout
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Vertical rectangle. Design for a hot water spout, attached at a wall, intended to be executed in yellow and white metals.The bowl is decorated with a frieze with festoons, and is connected with the supporting console by a female head with a drapery. Above is a pediment with the dove of the Holy Spirit in clouds, with a glory of rays and four cherubim.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- late 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-702
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- metalwork
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and ink, brush and sepia wash, gray, yellow watercolor, graphite on light brown paper
- Dimensions
- 33.9 × 23 cm (13 3/8 × 9 1/16 in.)
- made in
- Italy and Germany
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1938-88-702
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4096523a0-379e-4d83-94e3-a0594030113e
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