Design for an Oblong Plaster Ceiling
date: label: Date
content: 1780–90
name: label: Designer
content: George Richardson, British, ca. 1736 - 1813
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal format design for an oblong plaster ceiling. Rosettes in the four corners. In the center is an ovoidal wreath formed by twigs within which are slopes formed by a garland. In the center is an urn, crossed, a thyrsus and a shepherd’s staff. The field is a rectangle, with parts of rosettes in the corners and tangent oblongs outside. They are decorated with two empty oblongs, laterally, and with a frieze of intertwined circles and segments with rosettes. Below the scale; “Feet.” Two framing lines.
place: label: made in
content: London, England
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase from the Mary Hearn Greims Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1940-21-11
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture, interiors
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and wash, black and gray chalk on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 33 x 40.2 cm (13 x 15 13/16 in.)