Design for a Frieze
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1770
name: label: Artist
content: Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Three panels framed by oblongs with masks above and below, supporting festoons, whose other ends are supported in the lateral panels by masks above and below, and in the central panel by rinceaux. Inside the panels are smaller ones framed by bands, with an oval containing a shell, at left and right, and a motif of four shells in the center; rinceaux; half-figures of winged animals at left and right.
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1901-39-1237
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Black crayon, pen and sepia ink, brush and gray watercolor on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 40.5 x 8.6 cm (15 15/16 x 3 3/8 in.)