Object Details
- Designer
- Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Horizontal rectangle. Designs for silver serving pieces decorated with female masks from which a bunch of grapes and leaves are suspended. Medusa masks, serpents, and mouldings form the primary decorative motifs. Identifying captions accompany each illustration. In the top row, from left to right: a soup bowl and its plate, the inscription "Zappiera" above and "Piatto" below; a tray with a bottle cooler and four glasses, the inscription "Vaso p[er] Bottigha e Porta bichiere / sotto da Dismetere" above; a coffee pot shown in profile, the handle formed by a snake, the inscription "Caffeteria" above; an ovoidal soup bowl with ovoidal plate, the inscription "Terina" above and "Piatto" below. Center row, from left to right: a salt bowl with the spoon shown over it, the inscription "Salziera" above; an oil cruet with two bottles, the inscription "Portaglio" above; a round tureen with spoon above, the inscription "Sgommvaello [?] / Tazza zil Poncio" surrounding the spoon; a plate, the inscription "Tondino" at center; a plate warmer, the inscription "Scaldavivande" above. At bottom center, a salt bowl, the inscription "Salziera" above.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- early 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-657
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- tableware designs
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and gray ink, brush and gray wash, graphite, ruled borders in pen and black ink on white laid paper
- Dimensions
- 31.4 x 50.5 cm (12 3/8 x 19 7/8 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_1938-88-657
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4d7a167aa-3adc-4374-ab7e-fcc716c9d652
