Design for a Chimneypiece
date: label: Date
content: 1799
name: label: Designer
content: Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle. Design for a chimney piece intended to be executed in marble with mosaics and bronze appliques. Laterally are two pillar stripes on either side, that in front having the shape of a terminus. It is framed by a moulding, as is the border which frames the opening on three sides. The terminus is decorated with a plant candelabrum with a swan on top, the border by garlands of calyces. The ornaments are white upon red ground. Above the termini and in the middle of the frieze are framed mosaics, representing landscapes. The two panels in between are decorated with a pair of sphinxes crouching symmetrically beside a vase. Their tails end with acanthus spirals. At left is the section, below is the plan, the scale, and an inscription.
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: 1938-88-636
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture, interiors
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 28.6 × 42.2 cm (11 1/4 × 16 5/8 in.)