Design for an Altar Mensa
date: label: Date
content: 1764–66
name: label: Attributed to
content: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: In the opening of the altar mensa stands a bathtub sarcophagus with two lion's heads at the base below the dividing vertical strips. In the central panel are two crossed palm branches, a wreath and a PX.
place: label: made in
content: 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: 1938-88-4192
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pencil, pen and ink
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 22.2 × 11 cm (8 3/4 × 4 5/16 in.)