Design for a Cruet Frame with Alternative Suggestions
date: label: Date
content: early 19th century
name: label: Designer
content: Giovacchino Belli, Italian, 1756 - 1822
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle. Design for a cruet frame with alternative suggestions. The handle is formed by a Medusa head wrapped between two snakes, rising from the arched railing on top of two bowls in the shape of egg cups at left and right. The cups are decorated with laurel festoons at left and vine festoons at right. The bottles have two rectangularly broken handles. The base shows a moulding; from its center rises a plant on a sphere.
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: 1938-88-656
objectType: label: Type
content: tableware designs
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 28.3 × 32.2 cm (11 1/8 × 12 11/16 in.)