Design for the Decoration of a Panel
date: label: Date
content: 1780-1790
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A variation of the scheme of -1439. The motif below has the width of teh panel. Upon a pedestal stands a circular, vaulted structure in the center of a hemi-circle. The lateral parts of the front of teh pedestal are projecting; upon them are sitting figures. Above the hemi-circle are scrolls from which two stems rise having above scrolls and on top an oval medallion with a standing figure. The scroll rising in teh center end in spirals above the medallions, framing a stem witha female half-figure and supporting the frame of a landscape. Above the latter are two crouching animals beside a medallion, with scrolls on top.
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: 1938-88-1439
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: 22.3 x 11.6 cm (8 3/4 x 4 9/16 in.)