Surtout de Table (Centerpiece) with the Temple of Isis in Pompeii
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1800
name: label: Workshop of
content: Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 1762–1839
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Drawing of a surtout de table or deser (table centerpiece) whose theme is the ruins of Pompeii. The table’s legs are straight with fluting and a gilded lion mask. The sides of the tables are decorated with rows of moldings, the top being egg-and-dart. At each corner is a high oil lamp in the antique style. The center of the table is stepped. The sides are decorated with figural tablets and swags. Each tablet is topped by a miniature urn, bust, or sculpture. The center of the table features architectural ruins and gilded sculptures on inscribed plinths. This drawing is very similar to another anonymous image produced in the workshop of Giuseppe Valadier. That drawing, in the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples, which shows the same centerpiece, but without the table upon which it sits. The actual small model of the Temple of Isis belonging to this centerpiece is also at Capodimonte, and attributed to either Giuseppe Valadier or Carlo Albacini.
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: 1938-88-4150
objectType: label: Type
content: furniture
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 on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 41.2 × 101.8 cm (16 1/4 × 40 1/16 in.)