Design for a Console Table
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Drawing showing part of a design for a console table. Design includes a fluted supporting facade, and a central relief with three figures. Relief is framed in warm-hued tones with a botanical festoon below it, which tapers toward the tabletop and then extends out toward the leg, hanging alongside the leg at the outside. The legs are connected below by scrolls ending in dolphins which support a shell at center.
place: label: made in
content: Italy
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
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: 1938-88-2092
objectType: label: Type
content: furniture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and grey, brown, and rose watercolor, pen and gray and black ink, graphite on paper, with cardstock backing
label: Dimensions
content: 9.8 × 15.6 cm (3 7/8 × 6 1/8 in.)