Three Friezes
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1800
name: label: Designer
content: Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Upper row, left: bearded and foliated masks connected by festoons. At right, horizontal bar surrounded by waved vine branch. Bottom row: row of festoons hanging from disks in center of bow-knots. Above, festoons as tablets with inscriptions. Winged sphinx shown in profile, partly outlined.
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1901-39-1208
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 dark brown ink, brush and brown wash on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 12.4 x 43.4 cm (4 7/8 x 17 1/16 in.)