Designs for a Console Looking Glass
date: label: Date
content: 1815–30
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle. Two designs for a console with mirror divided vertically in half at center. The top of the console table is an entablature supported by capitals upon the heads of lions, a crouching lion at right, a seated lion at left upon bases. The height of the table is indicated as "p. som. 4," written in graphite at lower right. The mirror has an inner moulded frame. It has below a dado with a decorated frieze, and laterally columns. Upon these stand a Gothic two-foil of a kind standing upon a calyx at left, a female figure carrying a vase upon her head at right. On top are an ornament of crossed scrolls, at left, griffins beside a circular medallion with a female hand, at right. Verso: roughly outlined plans.
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: 1938-88-546
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 brown ink, graphite on cream wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 31.3 × 18.5 cm (12 5/16 × 7 5/16 in.)