Two Projects for Painted Grotesque Decorations of a Ceiling
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1590
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle. The wave band is drawn on both sides, fret bands are indicated as decorations of the central frames. Below, in the center of the rhomboidal panel is an ooblong tablet support by the wings of a half-figure. Rinceaux bars spring with vases from which branches rise, forming a half circular panel. Enclosed are two birds and a hanging gem. Below are two winged tigers. In the scythe of the rhomboidal panel, on the reverse of a candelabrum, there are a half-figure of a winged woman, a lekythos and rinceaux. Two birds are beside it above. Laterally are two winged half-figures, from whose rinceaux spring, with birds atop.
place: label: made in
content: 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: 1938-88-2616
objectType: label: Type
content: ornament
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Charcoal, pen and ink, brush and greyish-brown watercolor on laid paper.
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 15.4 × 22.3 cm (6 1/16 × 8 3/4 in.)