Designs for Three Pedestals
date: label: Date
content: 1770–80
name: label: Designer
content: Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Left: Tall shaft decorated with two rams heads, drafted in garlands, below a portrait plaque containing a profile of a woman facing left, base baring central relief of putti.
label: Description
content: Center: two winged putti flank a talla antique-style urn from which arises a bust of Bacchus, the base bears an eagle in relief.
label: Description
content: Right: Above base two sphinxes flank medallion relief depicting three figures and billowing smoke, surmounted by trophy of birds, a quiver of arrows and pumes at top.
place: label: made in
content: France
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1911-28-56
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture, interiors
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 watercolor on off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 16.5 x 23.5 cm (6 1/2 x 9 1/4 in.)