Design for the Decoration of Three Pilaster Strips
date: label: Date
content: 1789-1793
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Lattice working symmetrically from a base and ending in a similar oblong on top, forms the lozenges and an oblong in the center. All panels are decorated. Birds are in the lozenges, the figure of a woman between two children, in the central oblong. Center: An ovoid. A candelabrum with the half-figures of two children is in the upper panel. A wreath hands from a festoon in the lower panel. A trophy is below. Right: A candelabrum. The figures of two children, standing upon a base, support an ovoidal medallion which contains the figure of a woman. For painted vertical panels, noble cabinet, Palazzo Altieri.
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: 1938-88-1469
objectType: label: Type
content: interiors
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 on lined off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 27.4 x 19.8 cm (10 13/16 x 7 13/16 in.)