Designs for a Mantelpiece
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1785
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The left halves are shown. Left row: an entablature is supported by a column with a frieze and representations around it; it is without a capital. Below: the entablature is supported by two caryatids standing upon bases. Center: the opening is framed by stripes. The upper part is decorated with drapery festoons. In front, at left, a trophy of carpenter tools, in the center an Egyptian head, behind which are a carpenter's square, an oar and trident, crossed. Inside the opening, an Egyptian woman sits upon a fluted column, in front of the left wall, in profile. Below is a dado with a crouching lion, with an urn on its back. Sketched inside the opening is the left side of a couped obelisk with the forepart of a sphinx, shown in profile, laterally. At the front a trophy of arms. Right row: the entablature is supported by a pilaster strip, with the sun above. Beside it are two female figures with flower pots upon their heads. Beside, at left, a sketch for the decoration of the molding. Below, the lower part has the shape of a molded frame, with a caryatid standing inside. Above is an entablature with a frieze in which sphinxes support circular medallions. Colored background.
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: 1938-88-1691
objectType: label: Type
content: interiors
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 31.4 x 43.8 cm (12 3/8 x 17 1/4 in.)