Design for Ceiling Decoration, a Barrel Vault
date: label: Date
content: 1790–1800
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A variation of the scheme of -1539. The left corner is clearly shown. The figures of two women stand in front of the support of a sphere, below a festoon, in the arch between the panel, in the intervals of the painted arches. Above them are oblongs with rinceaux. The upper part is decorated with octagonal representations. They are separated by bands. Children, holding a shell with a mask, are seated upon the oblongs with rinceaux.
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: 1938-88-1525
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: 18.8 x 27.3 cm (7 3/8 x 10 3/4 in.)