Design for Decorations for a Ceiling
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1820
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Obverse: A square ceiling. In the center is moulded square frame from whose corners bands are stretching toward the corners of the room. For the resulting trapezoids are alternatuve decorations suggested. The upper trapezoid is spherical with half-circle below decorated with a band with bat wings. A decoration of the band is also suggested. In the center of the trapezoids are below a circular medallion with a figure, at right an ovoidal medallion in a cross form at left a lozenge with a figure. Verso: A rough sketch for a decoration with quatrefoils and a lozenge.
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: 1938-88-1474
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
label: Dimensions
content: 18.2 x 17.7 cm (7 3/16 x 6 15/16 in.)