Design for the Decoration of a Frieze
date: label: Date
content: 1750–75
name: label: Attributed to
content: Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle. In the shape of an attic or a dado, whose compartments are laterally framed by projecting consoles with a mask in front. Beside them stand symmetrically winged putti, with one hand at the edge of a shield with three crescents leaning against the consoles. Between them are, alternatively in the compartments, landscapes in octagons and ovals.
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: 1938-88-506
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 black ink, brush and gray wash on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 8.5 x 41.3 cm (3 3/8 x 16 1/4 in.)