Design for the Decoration of Four Pilaster Strips
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1790
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: One beside the other, separated by empty strips. Each decoration follows the scheme of the candelabrum, starting below from a box-like base. The first two strips are of a greater width than the last ones. Left row: two crouching lions support the stem of a palmette flower above which rises a pavillion with a goddess inside sitting upon clouds. A plant candelabrum springs from the roof of the pavilion. Charcoal lines are at the left edge. Second row: Two fighting animals are represented at the base. Above is a plant candelabrum, with an ovoidal medallion with a figure in the center. Third row: A rabbit is represented at the base. Two female gaines are shown in profile; they support a base upon which stands a woman performing a sacrifice. Above similar to the second row. Fourth row: Two crouching sphinxes support a stem, in whose center is an ovoidal medallion with a figure, which supports a niche in which a statue stands. ABove are candelabrum motifts with another medallion and two sitting children.
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: 1938-88-1468
objectType: label: Type
content: interiors
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 26.2 x 19 cm (10 5/16 x 7 1/2 in.)