Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Horizontal rectangle with rounded corners. A coffin-like box, with cornices around its middle part, which has the greatest diameter. The upper and lower parts are mainly made of glass, with framing wooden parts. Scrolls at the feet. In front of the center of the central cornices is an escutcheon. The upper part has in the center a circular pediment with two cherubim in clouds in the center, and a monogram "PX" above two crossed palm branches on top. Laterally are cornices of a broken pediment.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- early 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-545
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- glasswares
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and ink, brush and sepia wash, blue and gray watercolor, red crayon on laid paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 14.3 × 20.3 cm (5 5/8 in. × 8 in.)
- 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_1938-88-545
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4479ee46b-bf61-4ddc-b819-8b40ca134a81
