Design for One Quarter of a Ceiling with a Central Circular Decoration
date: label: Date
content: 1775–1820
name: label: Designer
content: Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle. One-eight of decoration shown. Center: circular medallion, probably with Aurora, framed by circle with Zodiac signs and mouldings. From corners and from middle of sides rise plant candelabra with winged genii on top, who support festoons. Candelabra connected below by fret band; above, by two branches which border ovoidal panel in which woman dances between tow-hanging trophies. Ceiling bordered by mouldings with frieze. Reverse: above, "quadro longo sara otto palmi." Below, oblong plane written inside: "Largez[z] a piedi tre/ zechini venti/ zeci 8/ seconda la misura segnata/ da gaetano." (More writing in talian on right, short side, and center right and left.) At lower edge, upper parts of three panels: "Pel la metta di/ questa grandeza/ zechin 8/ per ornati cento scudi/ zec 6/ per figura piu picola/ zechin quatro." Left: "Galerie sudi 30/ camera da ricev scudi 20/ camera di comp scudi 15/ camera di letto scu 30/ 95."
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1901-39-1666
objectType: label: Type
content: ornament
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown ink over traces of graphite on cream yellow laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 19.2 x 16.7 cm (7 9/16 x 6 9/16 in.)