Design for a Door and Doorcase
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1780
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The door has two foldings, either of them with tall rectangular panels above and below, and a small, wide rectangular central panel. The first ones have a lozenge with a standing figure and ornaments for which three different suggestions are made. The central panels frame a wide oval with a figure, recumbent. The entablature of the door frame is supported by two gaines with satyr heads, beside which are two pilasters, back at the wall, panels of which show an upright stem. Similar pilasters support the entablature above, framing the center panel of the overdoor. In front of it is a circular medallion with the bust portrait of a man in antique cuirass; beside it two kneeling mermaids. Above it weapons and colors of a trophy. The wall is colored.
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: 1938-88-1656
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
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: 27.7 x 18 cm (10 7/8 x 7 1/16 in.)