Design for a Round Tureen
date: label: Date
content: early 19th century
name: label: Designer
content: Giovacchino Belli, Italian, 1756 - 1822
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle. Design for a round tureen intended to be executed in partly gilded silver. The round base is similar to that in 1938-88-651: a round base of two sections, the lower one showing a fret band. Four standing displayed eagles carrying festoons are intended upon the upper section, three shown. A round pedestal rises in the middle. Upon it stands upon four curved legs the bowl, described with leaf festoons hanging from Medusa masks at the upper ends of the legs. Pairs of snakes rise from the lateral masks, serving as handles. The upper part of the cover is shaped as a shell. Upon it stands the figure of Juno, raising a bowl with her right hand, the peacock beside her.
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: 1938-88-652
objectType: label: Type
content: tableware designs
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 23.7 × 21.2 cm (9 5/16 × 8 3/8 in.)