Designs for an Altar Mensa
date: label: Date
content: 1750–80
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle. At top left, an angel, holding boughs of a tree supporting four burning candles, sits beside a tabernacle, the left part of which is shown. It has the shape of a pavilion and Christ is sketched upon the door. At bottom, the left upper part of the mensa (altar stone) is shown with a ledge ending at right at the tabernacle in the shape of a pavilion.
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: 1938-88-492
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 gray wash on off-white laid paper, lined
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 19.5 × 26.3 cm (7 11/16 × 10 3/8 in.)