Design for a Chimneypiece
date: label: Date
content: 1780–1800
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The outer frame consists of pilasters with brakcets as consoles. The designs of the latter are different as are the decoration and the material used for the pilasters. The left one shows an inner narrow stripe with a heart motif framed by lilac marble. The right pilaster shows a framed oblong panel of red marble. The inner frame consists of oblongs of yellow marble and squares with rosettes. Above is an entablature with a high frieze. In its center is a device, a ring and two feathers. Laterally are at left a calyx, in an architrave at right a crouching lion shown from the front face. The cast shadow is indicated. The background is colored slightly brown. Base line. Below are the plan and thes cale. Traces of framing lines above and below.
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: 1938-88-8209
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: 19.8 × 29.4 cm (7 13/16 × 11 9/16 in.)