Sketches for a tablet
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1750
name: label: Artist
content: Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A tablet with a head rising from the middle of the top rim; its frame is supported by a woman leaning upon the tablet at left: a standing woman is alternatively suggested at right. Second row: a cloth frames the tablet; it is supported at left by a woman; at right on top by a flying angel, at the bottom by a kneeling figure. At right, a tablet is flanked by the two seated women. Third row, at right: the left half is shown; a chimera supporting a tablet. Bottom: a tablet with a pediment with a mask on top is supported by a standing angel, at left, by a flying small one at right.
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1901-39-2245
objectType: label: Type
content: ornament
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and black ink on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 25.5 x 17 cm (10 1/16 x 6 11/16 in.)