Design for the Decoration of a Panel
date: label: Date
content: 1775-1790
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: In the scheme of a candelabrum. At left: below is a pedestal with sitting sphinces upon the foot and supporting flower pots upon their heads. Children are standing upon their backs, holding reins. The sides of the lower part of the angular shaft are decorated with half-figures. The upper part of the shaft is an oblong with a head. Above is a base with two griffins, supporting festoons and another wider base. Upon the latter stand two women, suppotying an oval frame with a landscape standing in the center upon a calix. Above are symmetrical scrolls with a horizontal bar below upon the sides of which stands a bird and a putto with one end of a festoon. The upper scrolls end with winged half-figures.; on top is an eagle, displayed as in a wraeth. At right, without a framing line, and at left below, because of lacking space, not entirely drawn. Below are two crouching lions; their reins are carried by putti standing near their tails. Upon the heads of the lions stands a column from which two scrolls with a winged armless female half-figure spring. Upon the column stands a capital in the shape of a calix and upports a base upon which two woman sit, laterally; an oval medallion with a landscape between scrolls. Lateral spirals of the scrolls support two tree-like stems. The scrolls support above the medallion a horizontal bar above which is a heart form composed of scrolls. Inside and at the end of the upper scrolls is a half-figure, on top an eagle.
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: 1938-88-1444
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: 27.1 x 20.5 cm (10 11/16 x 8 1/16 in.)