Sketches
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1750
name: label: Artist
content: Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Top left: ceiling decoration with panels and bands. Bottom right: panel decoration with grotesque motifs and escutcheon on top; beneath it are dolphins with crossing tails; a bell hands from the tail of another dolphin farther below. Lower left: a vase in the shape of a column base, filled; a standing man and a kneeling woman are shown in the bottom molding; some accounting figures. On verso: fragment of a written tablet pertinent to a chemical system beginning with “Ogio dolce semplice,” ending with “Saponi animali come la Bile / Gelatina animale.”
place: label: made in
content: Italy
setName: label: See more items in
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1901-39-1328
objectType: label: Type
content: ornament
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and ink, brush and gray watercolor on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 19.7 x 13.3 cm (7 3/4 x 5 1/4 in.)