Project for ceiling decoration
date: label: Date
content: 1650–75
name: label: Artist
content: Unknown, Italian
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Project for the sculptured decorations of three caulted ceiling strips. The lower half. The strip at left: the frame is supported by a flying child partly in front of the lower panel. It is decorated similar to the corresponding central one, shown in -2509. Below is a broken pediment with two children, standing and leaning upon the corners. The central strip: a flying putto supports the frame. He is in front of the lower panel which is decorated with acanthus blossoms. Below is an attic pediment, with a mask with a shell as a diadem and with cornucopias springing from the mouth. Below is a festoon. Strip at right: the lower panel is decorated similarly to the central one, shown in -2509. Below is a pediment with two sitting children. Crosses are in the free spaces, corresponding to those in -2509. The scale is at right, in the lower framing line. On the reverse is the other half of the project of -2509. Entwined palm branches are sketched as a decoration of framing strips at left.
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: 1938-88-2510
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and gray wash, white heightening, pen and ink, graphite on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 39 x 28.2 cm (15 3/8 x 11 1/8 in.)