Design for Cornice of Oblong Ceiling
date: label: Date
content: 1770–80
name: label: Artist
content: Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: One quarter of the ceiling is shown. A circular medallion portrait of a woman is obliquely shown over a satyr mask and festoons in the corner. It is topped by a pair of doves, Cupid and Hymen. The sides are to show censers between acanthus spirals and behind festoons.
place: label: made in
content: France
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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: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1911-28-43
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 black ink, brush and grey and black wash, graphite
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 31.8 x 48.1 cm (12 1/2 x 18 15/16 in.)