Design for a Doorcase
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1790
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A plain door frame, having on top a frieze with three escutcheons, connected by festoons. Above the frieze is an entablature, upon which stands a prelate's escutcheon between two cornucopias upon a plinth. The central escutcheon in the frieze is also a prelate's one, the one at right has a crown on top, the one at left with a mantling and a hat on top. The wall is colored.
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: 1938-88-1658
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
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, lined
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 26.5 x 16.9 cm (10 7/16 x 6 5/8 in.)