Designs for Circular Plates
date: label: Date
content: early 19th century
name: label: Designer
content: Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle. Designs for two circular plates with several decorative suggestions. Plate at left: suggested are decorations of the rim at lower left and of intertwined ovoids below a cord motif at upper left. At lower right, shell and bead motifs. At upper right, no decoration is suggested. Plate at right: a flat band in Greek key style decorates the rim at upper left. At upper right, a circle of small beads. Lower half of plate decorated with cord motif. Remnants of a framing line at the left edge.
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: 1938-88-654
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 ink, brush and gray watercolor, graphite on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 18.9 × 34 cm (7 7/16 × 13 3/8 in.)