Design for a Chimneypiece
date: label: Date
content: 1780–1800
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A variation of 1938-88-8214. Brackets are above in the lateral stripes supporting cornices of an entablature. Bunches of fruits hang below them. The rinceaux in the upper strip spring from a fruit bowl. The right half suggests colored marble in the lateral and in the upper strip. Shadow, background, base line, plans, scale as in 1938-88-8214. The lateral elevation is shown at left.
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: 1938-88-8216
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: 27.4 × 36.3 cm (10 13/16 × 14 5/16 in.)