Wall and Ceiling Decorations
name: label: Designer
content: Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Bordering-band with festoons supported by birds. Rectangular central panel; along short side, panel with entwined wreaths; outside band, grotesque structure with winged genius below burning lamp; circular medallion supported by female half figure in center. Beside, at left, two bands, first one with grotesque candelabrum supported by bearded mask, having on top wreath and two torches. In center, hexagonal panel with ornaments beside for alternative suggestions made. Second band divided into central panel with female head in wreath, eagle below. Two Gaines carry on large ropes pointed diamond ring. Panels framed by bands with disks. Lateral panel outside subdivided into rectangles, most with sparse decoration for which occasionally alternative suggestions made. Framing pencil lines.
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: 1938-88-3085
objectType: 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 over traces of graphite on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 28.3 x 52 cm (11 1/8 x 20 1/2 in.)