Design for a Reliquary
date: label: Date
content: early 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle with rounded corners. A coffin-like box, with cornices around its middle part, which has the greatest diameter. The upper and lower parts are mainly made of glass, with framing wooden parts. Scrolls at the feet. In front of the center of the central cornices is an escutcheon. The upper part has in the center a circular pediment with two cherubim in clouds in the center, and a monogram "PX" above two crossed palm branches on top. Laterally are cornices of a broken pediment.
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: 1938-88-545
objectType: label: Type
content: glasswares
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and ink, brush and sepia wash, blue and gray watercolor, red crayon on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 14.3 × 20.3 cm (5 5/8 in. × 8 in.)