Funeral Decorations for King Louis XVI of France
date: label: Date
content: 1793
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Below are steps. Above are stands, between two vases with flames, a round base, having above mouldings a frieze with a row of figures. Above it stands a pedestal, whose base is elongated by the projecting bases for two standing figures, a variation of 1938-88-1289, as is the entire pedestal and the group on top. The inscription is in the panel of the lower part, and the round part has festoons, no flutes.
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: 1938-88-1312
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
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: 27.2 x 20 cm (10 11/16 x 7 7/8 in.)