Frame for a member of the Braschi Family
date: label: Date
content: 1780–1795
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Above is the left part of the elevations. A part of the outer frame is curved on top. There is the bend; laterally are branches springing from a fleur-de-lys. In the lower left corner is a separate panel with a star. An oblong panel is below the inner oblong; it is decorated with a star in front of a festoon and two fishes. Caption; inside: "Sotto la stella/ che tiene ordegui da lavoro/ per I[t]erreri e due pesci che/ portano li gredetti ordegui". Below is the elevation, with alternative suggestions with cornucopias, standing laterally at left, lying around the corner at right. Below is the field with three stars.
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: 1938-88-1892
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 (two pieces of paper vertically stuck together), mounted
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 37.8 x 19.4 cm (14 7/8 x 7 5/8 in.)