Design for a Reliquary
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1810
name: label: Designer
content: Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle. Design for a reliquary with an oblong pedestal base. Two figures of kneeling slaves shown in profile at center and two standing slaves at edges support an urn. A tablet with an inscription is at its front. On top of the cover are two angels, a standing one holding a pastoral staff, another sitting and painting a mitre.
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 and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-88-677
objectType: label: Type
content: sculpture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and black ink, brush and gray watercolor, graphite on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 29.4 × 16.5 cm (11 9/16 × 6 1/2 in.)