Project for a Set of Tableware
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1820
name: label: Artist
content: Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Designs for dishes, eleven groupings in total, distributed across the sheet.
label: Description
content: From top row: a tureen with two biforked handles and a vine slope on top. The plate is in an upright position; caption, written in ink: "Zvppiera". A fork, a spoon, a knife over an oval bowl. Caption: "Posta" and "Navette Per li Bicchieri"; a bottle cooler, "Vaso Bottiglia"; an oval covered bowl corresponding to the tureen, "Terina"; oval bowl as a saucer, the spoon is over it, "Tazzetta Per le Salze"; a cruet frame the handle consisting of three intertwined oval rings, "Porta Oglis"; a silver bowl, a spoon with a wooden handle is shown over it, "Vaso Per il Poncio"; a plate, "Tondino"; a plate warmer with a wooden handle, "Per Scaldare le Vivande." Bottom center: a round salt cellar, "Saliera." Two framing lines, blue stripe.
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: 1938-88-5946
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 black ink, brush and black, yellow, and blue watercolor, graphite on paper, lined with green paper
label: Dimensions
content: 31.7 x 49.1 cm (12 1/2 x 19 5/16 in.)