Design of an Altar mensa
date: label: Date
content: 1650-1675
name: label: Designer
content: Unknown, Italian
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Laterally are two projecting pilasters, decorated with rinceaux. The central part is decorated with a broad oval, framed by mouldings. Below are cornices of a broken pediment, with angels standing on them; they carry branches and support a framed oval representation of Christ, sprinkling holy water upon the dragon of the devil. Above this oval is the napkin of St. Veronica. Outside the broad oval are at left: the half-figure of a dragon (referring to the Buoncompagni), shown in profile, turned toward left.
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 and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-88-4015
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and ink, brush and watercolor, charcoal, graphite on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 19.3 × 38 cm (7 5/8 × 14 15/16 in.)