Console tables
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1785–1790
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Lower row: two left halves of projects. Frame and top have the shape of cornices of an entablature, the leg has the shape of a wingless chimera. A support in the center is added, being at left a column with a row of figures representing women around the shalf, at right a panel supporting a cube with a figure. Leg and support are connected in the left project by a festoon. The lower parts are lacking in both designs. Partly above the left one is drawn in graphite part of a sketch of a vase. Center: a console table similar to that at left, below, the central support being a square pedestal with a representation. Standing upon the table is an oval with the representation of a head supported by a base and framed by two figures. Above, at right: the left side of a console table with four legs. These are eagles springing below from a calyx, above a base. Above is the left lower part of the same object as on the table, in the center. Above at left, the left side of a console table seen from below. The foliated post springs from a calyx and has a mask above, with a pediment volute. In the front of the frame is a festoon. 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: 1938-88-2073
objectType: label: Type
content: furniture
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, graphite on off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 27 x 19.9 cm (10 5/8 x 7 13/16 in.)