Console tables
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1785–1790
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Two left sides. At leftL the support has a lion's foot, above which is a bunch of palm branches fastened by ribbons. On top is a mask. Two snakes, curved outward and seen in profile, are fastened to it, below by the same ribbons, above by slopes. Frame and top are an etablature with representations in medallions and with rinceaux in the frieze. At right, the support is a branch with two entwined snakes with birds' heads. They spport festoons. Frame and top form an entablature with architectural ornamentation springing from a row of small leaves. Usual 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: 1938-88-2071
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, lined
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 16.2 x 23.7 cm (6 3/8 x 9 5/16 in.)