Design for a Chimneypiece
date: label: Date
content: 1780–1800
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The fireplace is framed by moldings which stand upon the same bases as the lateral pilaster strips. The panels of the latter and those of the frieze are of marble. The first ones are decorated with twigs hanging from bowknots. In front of the frieze and of the lower part of the entablature is an oblong with an ovoidal representation of Psyche and Cupid. Ramheads are the upper corners supporting festoons the outer ends of which drag over eagles standing at the corners. Shadow, base line, plans, scale as in 1938-88-8199.
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 and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-88-8207
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite, pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 29.4 × 38.3 cm (11 9/16 × 15 1/16 in.)