Two Projects for Painted Grotesque Decorations of a Ceiling
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1590
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle. At top center are parts of outline of the framing of the central panel. Below are framing mouldings with wave motif at front. The lower corners are connect to the corners of central panel by garlan candelabra with masks at their bases. Below is the center of the rhomboidal panel, at front is a winged, armless half-figure, supporting a vase with leaves on her head. Two birds sit on spring rinceaux below. On verso: the same image as on recto but at the rhomboidal panel, there is an ovoidal medallion with a standing figure, on which lamps stand and drapery festoons hang. Birds flying beside it. Below are rinceaux with two half figures that are similar to design on recto.
place: label: made in
content: 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: 1938-88-2615
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture, interiors
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Charcoal, pen and ink, brush and greyish-brown watercolor on laid paper.
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 14.8 × 22.1 cm (5 13/16 × 8 11/16 in.)