Funeral Decorations for King Louis XVI of France
date: label: Date
content: 1793
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Below are steps, which in the upper half are flanked by the bases of two groups, either consisteing of a standing woman leaning her right hand upon fasces, and a putto beside her. The pedestal is high and elaborate. Its lower part has a panel with the inscription in the main part of central most projecting part. Above the entablature are rectangular blocks, upon which sit at the front two putti, carrying respectively mitre and crozier, at he sides one putto. Behind them rises a round pedestal with festoons, on top a variation of 1938-88-1396.
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: 1938-88-1311
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 on lined off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 27.6 x 20.3 cm (10 7/8 x 8 in.)