Design for a Doorcase for the Center of a Façade in the Main Floor
date: label: Date
content: 1740–50
name: label: Designer
content: Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle. The right side is not entirely finished. At the bottom are the pedestals of the pilaster strips and the embedded columns that support the pediment and a balustrade. The overdoor shows a decorated bracket between festoons with broken pediment. A papal escutcheon stands in the center with hanging garlands. Genii, blowing trumpets, sit upon the corners. At bottom, section of the floor frame; outlines of a sheet of paper, held by a flying figure.
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: 1938-88-495
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 44.8 x 28.8 cm (17 5/8 x 11 5/16 in.)