Design for a Baptismal Font
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1775
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The bowl is supported at the ends by four revered consoles upon two octangonal plinths. The lower part of the bowl is fluted, the upper one has a frieze with festoons, hanging from the upper spirals of the consoles. Below, the lif in plain. Upon an octagonal base with cherubim at the oblique sides, raises a pedestal supporting a socket from which a cross springs. Only part of it is visible. Usual 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: 1938-88-1419
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
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 lined off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 27.2 x 18.5 cm (10 11/16 x 7 5/16 in.)