Ceiling Design
date: label: Date
content: 1708
name: label: Designer
content: Carlo Maria Pozzi
label: Print Maker
content: Johann August Corvinus, German, 1683–1738
label: Dedicatee
content: Frederick IV, King of Denmark and Norway, Danish, 1671–1730
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a ceiling with stucco molding forming a quatrefoil around the center. The corners of the ceiling have carved circles with garlands piercing them, and with sphinxes and trophies surrounding them. Two sides within the quatrefoil form have cartouches held by winged putti; the other two sides have putti holding columns and scales, and putti holding snakes and mirrors. The plate is signed and numbered.
place: label: made in
content: Augsburg
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
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: 1921-6-220-9
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bound print
label: Type
content: Bound print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraving on laid paper