Chairs
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1785–1790
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: At left is an armchair, seen from the left corner; the left arm is omitted, so are the back legs. The back is an upholstered big oval framed laterally by columns, supporting a kind of curved entablature. The space between the upholstering and the frame is filled by straw plaiting. Below, at right, is the sketch of a chair, seen from the front. The upper part of the back is a curved rectangle, supported in the center by a board and outside by bars. The arms are springing from the lower corners. Only the left front leg is drawn. 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: 1938-88-2050
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
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 20.6 x 17 cm (8 1/8 x 6 11/16 in.)