Design for a Set of Silver Tableware
date: label: Date
content: 1815–30
name: label: Designer
content: Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A hand bell. the lower part of the handle is shaped like a lyre. Marked, as all the letters, in pencil: "Q." A glass in a lower frame, "L." A cup shown sidewise; laurel staffs are the decoration; "N." A tureen topped by a putto with a bird in a sphere. The handles consist of angular bands, Medusae, plant motifs; "A." An egg cup consisting of a bowl carried by Atlas; "G." A sugar spoon; "I." A sugar bowl; the handles are like those of the tureen; "H." Another sugar spoon with a larger bowl; "I." A candlestick with a burning candle; a Medusa forms the handle; "P." Second row, laterally: two glass bottles in low frames; "K." Third row: a knife, a spoon, a fork; "O." A candlestick: a boy with a snake standing on a sphere raises with the left hand a cup with a burning candle; round pedestal; "R." A pitcher shown sidewise. A goat forms the handle, a merchild blowing a shell, the spout; "D." A circular plate; "B." A pitcher facing the other; the same spout; a dog forming the handle; "C." A candlestick symmetrical to the other; "R." Again "O." in opposite order. Bottom center; sugar tongs; "J." A bowl; handles of those as the tureen; A bird is shown at the top center; "E." A spoon; "F." Below the bird is circular base; "M."
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: 1938-88-5901
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 brown ink, brush and gray wash over graphite on off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 26.9 x 40.8 cm (10 9/16 x 16 1/16 in.)