Design for an Embroidered Frontal
date: label: Date
content: 1810-1830
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: More than the left half is shown. In the center, is a circular medallion with a cross. Beside are spherical pentagons, with rosettes in irregular quadrangles in the center of rinceau palmettes. Outside are: an oblong with sheaves rising from a calix, and a pillar strip with a candelabrum having in its center top a lozenge with a rosette and grapes. The strip is framed by garlands; so is the central part, the subdivisions of which are framed by moldings.
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: 1938-88-1483
objectType: label: Type
content: embroidery & stitching
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: 18.7 x 23.8 cm (7 3/8 x 9 3/8 in.)