Designs for Silver Tureen
date: label: Date
content: 1769
name: label: Artist
content: Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The tureen rests upon birds. Handles and cover finial with fishes. Several sketches of other suggestions for the handles and the masks which ought to be fixed at the lower edge of the cover.
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: 1901-39-1146
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: Graphite, pen and sepia ink, brush and gray watercolor on paper
label: Dimensions
content: Mat: 40.9 x 56 cm (16 1/8 x 22 1/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: (irregular): 29.3 x 44.4 cm (11 9/16 x 17 1/2 in.)