Design for an Inkstand
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1815
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle. Design for an inkstand, an ovoid base supported by the lion feet of hermae, of which five are visible. It has the shape of an entablature with festoons supported by the hermae, in the frieze. The handle is a hermae with the head of a bearded man with a pointed cap, and a festoon. Beside are two molded covers below crossed branches, in circle. At the upper edge are scrolls of a monogram.
place: label: made in
content: 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: 1938-88-678
objectType: label: Type
content: tableware designs
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and sepia ink on light gray-blue paper
label: Dimensions
content: 20.3 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)