Four chalices
date: label: Date
content: 1780–1790
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: At left the high foot is decorated with medallions, connected by festoons. The stem is a richly decorated baluster. Above it is a row of cherubim which support the bowl, whose lower part is decorated with festoons supported by bunches of ears of grain. Center: the stem is a standing angel, supporting with both hands upon his head the bowl. It has below a leaf calyx and is decorated with crossing ears of grain rising from the hands of the angel. A cloth hands from his left shoulder around his hips, forming below a background for him. At right, in smaller scale: at left, festoons supported by cherubim surround the foot. The stem has below the shape of a baluster, to which ears of grain are fastened by a ribbon. The bowl emerges from them. At right: the stem is an angular baluster. The bowl has a short foot and is decorated below by festoons supported by cherubim. Usual background.
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: 1938-88-1947
objectType: label: Type
content: metalwork
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 off-white laid paper, lined
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 20.1 x 27.6 cm (7 15/16 x 10 7/8 in.)