Design for an Ovoidal Tureen
date: label: Date
content: early 19th century
name: label: Designer
content: Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle. Design for an ovoidal tureen intended to be produced in partly gilt silver. Below is an ovoidal base of two sections, the lower one showing a fret band with a Greek key motif. Four standing displayed eagles carrying festoons are intended upon the upper section, three are depicted. A cylindrical pedestal rises in the middle. Upon it stands upon four curved legs the bowl, described with nine festoons hanging from Medusa masks at the upper ends of the legs. Pairs of snakes rise from the lateral masks, serving as handles. The upper part of the cover is shaped as a shell. Upon it stands a running girl with a flower basket in her left arm, raising a bunch of flowers with her right hand. Framing line.
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: 1938-88-651
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 gray, yellow watercolor, graphite on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 53.4 × 37 cm (21 in. × 14 9/16 in.)