Three Designs for Draperies and One Design for a Frieze
date: label: Date
content: 1746–1809
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Upper row, at left: in front of a drapery is a stem with feathers on top; curved branches are fastened to it and in the center is an oval wreath. At right: two differently shaped points of tents are in front of a drapery, both with feathers on top. The right point has a circle of feathers below and single curved feathers along the edges of the tent. The left point has along the edges small flower stems. Below, at left, the left side of the decoration of a frieze: the central motif is an oval weather with a bust portrait in profile. It is supported by the half-figure of a child with butterfly wings ending in rinceaux. From a second spiral springs the half-figure of a bust. 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: 1938-88-1652
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: 17.7 x 27.9 cm (6 15/16 x 11 in.)