Inkstand
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1810
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Shown slightly from above and obliquely from the right front corner. Not entirely shown at left. Below is a broad ovoidal base. Four kneeling mermen, who blow in shell horns, support a pedestal. It has the shape of an angular sarcophagus with two basins protruding at the ends. Their covers are decorated with calyces, their bowls with wreath medallions above branches. The front of the pedestal shows a trapezoidal relief of three women in the sea between moldings. Upon the four lower corners of the apparent cover stand putti carrying festoons with both hands. In the middle rises a fluted column with a band around the shaft. It shows medallions upon which there is a garland. Venus and Cupid, whom she evidently holds by one year, stand above. Colored background. In the upper left corner is a trace of a framing stripe.
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: 1938-88-1994
objectType: label: Type
content: metalwork
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 gray wash, graphite on off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 44 x 30.2 cm (17 5/16 x 11 7/8 in.)