Design for a Chimneypiece at Badminton House, Gloucestershire
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1773
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The fireplace is laterally framed by two pilaster strips of colored stone. They are framed by tori in gilded metal as is the upper edge of the opening. Fantastic plants in gilded metal are shown in the stripes. Upon the same base as these stand beside them caryatids holding lamps of gilded metal. They are shown in profile. Above is an entablature with a frieze of colored stone, with gilded metal. Bucrania hold festoons over which are objects resembling a dipper, a disk, a pitcher. In front of the frieze and the adjoining moldings is a relief with five dancers, after the "Borghese Dancers," a Roman relief now in the Louvre. Base line. Below are the plans and the scale (in English feet) with the figures added in ordinary ink. Framing line and stripe.
place: label: made in
content: Rome, Italy
label: used in
content: England
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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: 1938-88-8200
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite, pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 32.3 × 38 cm (12 11/16 × 14 15/16 in.)