Design for a Salt Cellar
date: label: Date
content: early 19th century
name: label: Designer
content: Giovacchino Belli, Italian, 1756 - 1822
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle. Design for a salt cellar intended to be executed in partly gilded silver. The design has the same elements as 1938-88-648: below is a circular base with a part of a sphere in the center. The supports are four scroll legs, fluted in the lower parts of the front and fastened together by a ring with rosettes. Above are Medusa masks which are connected by festoons, upon the bowl. The rim has a wave ornament. Design is lower than 1938-88-649, and the bowl has a greater diameter. No cover.
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: 1938-88-649
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 brown ink, brush and gray, pale yellow wash, graphite on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 14.9 × 19.5 cm (5 7/8 × 7 11/16 in.)