A Reliquary for Three Skulls
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1770
name: label: Artist
content: Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The image is in a horizontal rectangle. A box with a pediment is shown, whose general shape is that of a triangle. The front consists of a base and two angels at the corners and two gaines of empty armors inside. In the centre is a skull with a miter upon a base supported by two small angels, beside are two skulls with helmets, standing together with bones upon bases. The big angels at the corners are lifting a curtain. On top of the pediment are two angels with miter and palm branches; below them two cherubim above a festoon; below it, a monogram of a chi rho; above an escutcheon. Construction is lined with pencil.
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1901-39-2518
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Black crayon, brush, sepia, and gray water color.
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 43.5 × 32.7 cm (17 1/8 × 12 7/8 in.)