Design for an Embroidered Frontal
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: The left side is shown. The framing border is decorated with rinceaux. In the center is a circular panel with a cross. The circle is inscribed into a square and connected with the lateral panels which are like lozenges inscribed into oblongs. Small oblongs with figures border laterally the shown parts of the outer panels. In the lozenge is a vase with ears of grain.
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: 1938-88-1362
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: 13.8 x 25.3 cm (5 7/16 x 9 15/16 in.)