Chair
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1785–1790
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Above is the chair, seen from the front, the legs and the fore part of the arm being omitted, at right. The seat is upholstered. The back is high oval with straw plaiting supported by the upper part of the back legs. The arms begin above, at the back, and end in the upper part of the front legs which have the shape of two calices, one in the other. Below and at right are two sketches for the curved arms. On the reverse is part of the architectural plan with the letters "C", "f, and the caption, written by the artist: "Loggia e sotto / stalla". Usual background.
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: 1938-88-2052
objectType: label: Type
content: furniture
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 off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 23 x 15.8 cm (9 1/16 x 6 1/4 in.)