Ornament Design, Two Panels and Urn with Vulcan
date: label: Date
content: 1776
name: label: Artist
content: Michel Angelo Pergolesi, Italian, active ca. 1760–1801
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: At center: lidded bronze burial urn within a circle, framed by a pale green rectangular field. The urn features an image of Vulcan, seated, with tools. Ornament panels above and below. The upper design, featuring a pattern of alternating palmettes and inverted calyces, is in white against a background of blue. The lower, with an enclosed anthemium pattern, is in white against a background of purple. The urn is adapted from an image in Bernard de Montfaucon's "L'antiquité expliquée, et représentée en figures" (1719–24).
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Unknown Donor
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1980-32-1433
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 over graphite on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 48.3 × 34.3 cm (19 in. × 13 1/2 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Mat: 71.8 × 56.5 cm (28 1/4 × 22 1/4 in.)