Project for an andiron
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Vertical rectangle. The design is in small scale. A shell scroll is supported by two leaf scrolls. They are surrounded by a snake biting in the back of a child. Written beside: "focolare," first in pencil, then in ink. On the reverse, in two different inks, the accounts of the weight with the result "pessi 36" and "19.80"
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- 1700–1750
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-5947
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- tableware designs
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Black chalk, ink, pen in grey/brown watercolors on paper.
- Dimensions
- H x W: 27.4 x 20 cm (10 13/16 x 7 7/8 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_1938-88-5947
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq406ffaa3b-5ec3-4de7-816c-8458917d1f5b
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