Design for a Baptismal Font
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1775
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The bowl has below a leaf chalice and above a protruding band with festoons supported by bow-knots. It is supported by a square base, with a plinth below and an upper molded panel with two lead chalices at the sides and rinceaux springing from a head in the inner panel. The lid forms a high curved pedestal, with a row of upright scrolls with chrubim in the lower intervals. On top St. John the Baptist as boy, sitting. Usual 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: 1938-88-1406
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
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 lined off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 27 x 18.7 cm (10 5/8 x 7 3/8 in.)