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 is a base with steps and laterally standing candlesticks with a row of burning candles and one in the center on top. More steps are leading toward the pedestal. They are flanked by obliquely disposed bases with female allegories sitting upon them. The lower part of the pedestal is angular, its front panel being decorated with a relief. Putti sit upon its corners and support a festoon. The upper part is circular, and divided into three bands, the smallest, the central projecting. The lower is decorated with festoons, the upper is fluted. The group on top is possibly like that in 1938-88-1318.
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: 1938-88-1326
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 19.9 cm (10 7/8 x 7 13/16 in.)