Design for a Ceiling
date: label: Date
content: 16th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Part of a ceiling shown. At center, a blank octagonal frame flanked laterally with rectangles, the right one with scrolling ornament. Below two lozenge-shapes are decorated with putti and arabesques. At center, a mermaid. Frames are decorated with guilloche and rosettes. Two larger rosettes at the lower corners.
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1901-39-1621
objectType: label: Type
content: interiors
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown ink with brown, blue and yellow wash Support: off-white paper on secondary paper support