Elevation of an Altar Mensa
date: label: Date
content: 1720–50
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal format. Above and below are mouldings. The field is divided into strips. In the upper one stand four escutcheons; the lateral apses in which Evangelists sit, St. Mark being one of them, are not entirely shown. In the lower strip are three escutcheons, the points of which are in the upper strip. Represented in the center one: the Annunciation. At left: King David or Solomon; at right, probably Moses with the tablets. Angels sit upon the lower lateral scrolls of the central escutcheons, others carrying festoons fly beside it. Below the escutcheons stand small ones, with the sun and star, and the moon, respectively. In the lower strip, at the corners of the mensa, are suggested at left: volutes with half-figures of angels as caryatids of the upper escutcheons. At right: volute balusters with cherubim on top.
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 from the Mary Hearn Greims Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1940-21-41
objectType: label: Type
content: religion
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 35 × 69 cm (13 3/4 × 27 3/16 in.)