Design for a Console Table and Looking Glass
date: label: Date
content: 1790-1800
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Top: the upper part of the looking glass. It is oblong and flanked by deepened stripes with hanging fruit garlands. On top is a deepened oblong panel in which is an octangon with a flying putto framed by mouldings. In the upper corners hang festoons, in the lower ones stand displayed eagles, connected by a festoon. Bottom: the console table, shown in profile, turned toward left. The top, an entablature, is supported by a wall at the back, by a seated griffon in front. Colored background.
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: 1938-88-1043
objectType: label: Type
content: interiors
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 lined off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 25.8 x 11.5 cm (10 3/16 x 4 1/2 in.)