Lower end of staircase railing
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1780
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A calyx with a molded foot stands at left upon a base, from which springs laterally an acanthus scroll. From the calyx emerges the neck of an eagle reaching the upper edge of the scroll. It ends with a head which is not entirely shown. Colored 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: 1938-88-1948
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, graphite on off-white laid paper, lined
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 20 x 27.3 cm (7 7/8 x 10 3/4 in.)