Design for Baptismal Font
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1775
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The bowl is supported by a molded base. The lid has the shape of a pedestal which is decorated at the front with an oval medallion with the representation of the baptism of Christ, hanging from a bowknot in the frieze of the entablature. The oblique sides have volutes, with cherubim above the lower spirals. Above the entablature rises another pedestal, supported a cross above a globe. Beside it sits two angels, supporting with their hands a festoon and shouldering a lily stems. Usual background.
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: 1938-88-1424
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: 27.3 x 19.8 cm (10 3/4 x 7 13/16 in.)