Chair
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1785–1790
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Seen from the front. The frame of the upholstered back is a rectangle with a curve above and below, the latter changing into the inner panel of the central support; it has a trellis. The arms spring from the lower corners of the rectangle. The scroll is, at right, supported at the front by an urn. The front legs are: at left two crossed curved scrolls, at right a chimera. No back legs. On the verso is part of an architectural plan with some dimensions indicated.
place: label: made in
content: Rome, Italy
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1938-88-2054
objectType: label: Type
content: furniture
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, graphite on off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 24.6 x 16 cm (9 11/16 x 6 5/16 in.)