Ironwork Railing, Freudenstadt
date: label: Date
content: September 13, 1887
name: label: Artist
content: Whitney Warren Jr., American, 1864–1943
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal sheet tipped vertically into binding. Ornamental railing with faceted, tapered newel post ending in a ball finial. The railing consists of two levels of scrolling ornament with joints highlighted in golden yellow. The scrollwork of the upper section terminates in small flowers, also in golden yellow. The lower section consists of confronted scrolls joined by a flame-like central element. In the field above and to the right of the railing are three small flowers or quatrefoils and the flame-like element drawn in greater detail. Each is numbered I through IV, and correspond to decorative elements in the railing also noted numbers I through IV.
label: Description
content: Related to railing depicted in 1943-51-119, 1943-51-120.
place: label: made in
content: Freudenstadt, Germany
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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: Gift of Mrs. William Greenough
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1943-51-121
objectType: label: Type
content: metalwork
label: Object Name
content: Album page
label: Type
content: Album page
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and watercolor, graphite on cream paperboard tipped into binding with fabric
label: Dimensions
content: 32 x 25 cm (12 5/8 x 9 13/16 in.), irregular