Sarcophagi
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: Two left halves of the elevation are shown. At left: a bathtub form supported by gaines with heads as capitals. At right: shown from the inside of the supports at left: THey have the shape of balusters, upon which sphinxes crouch. They support festoons which hang at the sides and drag from a mask in the center of the entablature. The front of the body has the shape of a trapezoid with figures. Colored background. The coloring at the lower edge has its continuation in 1938-88-1396.
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: 1938-88-1395
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
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 lined off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 12 x 18.5 cm (4 3/4 x 7 5/16 in.)