Design for Mantelpiece Decoration
date: label: Date
content: 1789
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The left half of the fireplace and of the frieze are shown. A single molding forms the frame. The frieze is decorated with festoons hanging beside an ovoidal medallion at right, with figures in the center. Three children are in the center. A standing woman is shown in the medallion. A siren forms the bracket at the corner. A standing quadruped, the central one. Inside the fireplace is the section along the inner side of the corner bracket. Realized version carved in marble by Vincenzo Pacetti, reliefs for the Noble Cabinet, Palazzo Altieri.
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: 1938-88-1679
objectType: label: Type
content: interiors
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: 24.9 x 18.9 cm (9 13/16 x 7 7/16 in.)