Design for a Bowl
date: label: Date
content: early 19th century
name: label: Designer
content: Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle. Design for a bowl intended to be executed in alabaster and gilded metal. Below is a circular base with masks and a hexagonal one with concave sides. Upon it stands a tripod with a central support consisting of two calyces. Verso: the plan of the bases, blotted writing.
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: 1938-88-634
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 ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 21.4 × 18.9 cm (8 7/16 × 7 7/16 in.)