Design for a Chimneypiece
date: label: Date
content: 1780–1800
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The inner frame consists of moldings and outside, of a frieze whose back is suggested white, at left, of colored marble, at right. It is decorated by a band of palmettes and buds. Below are bases. Embedded fluted columns standing upon plinths flank the inner frame. They have composit capitals and support an entablature, whose frieze shows three oblongs of colored marble with festoons in appliqués. Ovoidal frames with bow knots on top are upon the white parts. Laterally are receding strips. Short base line. Below are the plans of the lateral parts and a scale in English feet.
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: 1938-88-8208
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: 29.1 × 35.6 cm (11 7/16 in. × 14 in.)