Bases of pilaster stripe
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1790
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Central row, above: the elevation of two pedestals, one above the other, separated by a band. The front panel of the lower pedestal is decorated with marble, that of the upper one with figures. Below, a high pedestal with a frieze supported by two gaines. Above is another pedestal with a medallion and a garland at the front. The pedestal of a pillar is at the back. Below at left is a gaine with a lion mask as support of an entablature. Below at right is shown the left half of a pedestal upon which lions crouch supporting another pedestal. Colored 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: 1938-88-1925
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, lined
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 24.2 x 19.2 cm (9 1/2 x 7 9/16 in.)