Console table with candlestick
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1795
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The supports are two oblique pillars with lion's feet connected above these by moldings. The frame has the shape of a frieze with figures, the top has the shape of cornices of an entablature. The candlestick is a variation of -2030, the pedestal having also a round shape, the lion's mask, the festoons and the brakcets being attached to it. The column is fluted. Usual background. On the reverse is part of a project, in ink, of the decoration of the entrance wall of a room. Above a door is a panel, beside it, at left, a dado and a panel. Above is an entablature and the vaulted lower part of the ceiling.
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: 1938-88-2020
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 brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 23.6 x 10.4 cm (9 5/16 x 4 1/8 in.)