Designs for Two Console Tables, with a Female Head
date: label: Date
content: 1789–1793
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: From left to right. The head seen in profile, turned toward right. The left side of a table. The leg is a round post of increasing diameter springing from a calyx, entwined by a garland, with a fluted capital. Frame and top form an entablature, with drapery festoons in the frieze. The left side of a table. The leg is a gaine with a satyr's head and a drapery, with a tortoise as a foot. The legs are connected below with a central motif: a stem between birds. Frame and top in the shape of cornices of an entablature. 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: 1938-88-2074
objectType: label: Type
content: furniture
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 off-white laid paper, lined
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 27.5 x 20 cm (10 13/16 x 7 7/8 in.)