Design for a Console Table with Candlestick and a Bed
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1790
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle. At left, console table supported by two legs, ending in lion feet, legs fluted columns topped with eagles. Candlestick on top of the table consists of a monumental column with a lamp on top, at which two arms are fastened, each with a burning candle. At lower right corner, profile view of a bed standing below a canopy in the shape of a tent. Background colored with brown wash.
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: 1938-88-554
objectType: label: Type
content: furniture
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 bistre wash on off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 25.8 × 14.2 cm (10 3/16 × 5 9/16 in.)