Three chalices
date: label: Date
content: 1746–1809
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: At left: the foot is decorated with two cherubim. The stem is a floated baluster. The lower part of the bowl is decorated with leaves. Center: a richer, decorated variation of the same motif. Cherubim are connected by festoons and are in front of flutes. At right: a variation of the upper part of the stem and the bowl of the central project. Below, the bowl has a row of cherubim. A sketch of the left side of the bowl is partly drawn over the project in ink. Left of it is a sketch, in ink, of a stem, a baluster, and the lower part of the bowl. Usual background.
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: 1938-88-1942
objectType: label: Type
content: metalwork
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 off-white laid paper, lined
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 19 x 27.3 cm (7 1/2 x 10 3/4 in.)