Designs for a Mantelpiece
date: label: Date
content: 1775–1800
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Left row, top: in small scale, an entablature is supported by gaines standing in front of pilasters. Center: bases are laterally below. Three sides of a molded frame stand upon them. A receding molding is supported above by brackets. An oblong with an ovoidal medallion is above in the center in front of both moldings. Festoons hang from the upper corners of the oblong to the brackets. The shelf is formed by an entablature. Below: the upper left corner is shown. The opening is framed by moldings. A gaine supports outside an oblong with molded frame, being the front side of a shelf. Right row, above: the left side is shown. A gaine in front of a pilaster carries an oblong with projecting central part. Above is an entablature. Below at left: similar to the design, left row, below with a different capital and with an entablature added. Below at right, a similar design with a different capital and with more moldings, part of which is decorated. Colored background.
place: label: made in
content: Rome, Italy
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-88-1680
objectType: label: Type
content: interiors
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 20.3 x 27.4 cm (8 x 10 13/16 in.)