Fountain Basin
date: label: Date
content: 1650–75
name: label: Artist
content: Domenico Piola, Italian, 1627 - 1703
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Two dolphins' tails form lateral edges of basin, their heads at the bottom center of the basin. Two young male mermaids blowing horns ride upon the dolphins. Two children, one holding sheet music, are standing before a woman in the center. She raises a sail with her right hand and leans her left hand upon the head of a dolphin.
place: label: Place
content: Genoa, Italy
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 Mrs. John Innes Kane
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1945-26-30
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
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, over black chalk on white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 20 x 32.6 cm (7 7/8 x 12 13/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Mat: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)