Grotesque Panel
date: label: Date
content: 1570–1600
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle, symmetrical scheme. A candelabrum is in the middle, consisting of an ox-head carrying a skull mask in the center. Below is a staff, to which two dolphins are fastened. Festoons hang laterally above. Spirals spring from the mask, ending with half-figures of hares. Below are porcupines and plants, above which armless winged satyresses stand. Framing line.
place: label: made in
content: 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: 1938-88-2438
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Black chalk, pen and ink, brown, gray wash on paper.
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 12.5 × 8.7 cm (4 15/16 × 3 7/16 in.)