Design for the Decorations of Five Pilaster Strips
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: Left row: A candelabrum with a base like those in 1938-88-1468. Upon it a griffon crouch and support an ovoidal medallion with a lying putto. Winged half figures of children connect the medallion with an oblong frame with a female figure. Above it is a half figure supporting another ovoidal medallion. On top is a plant. Second row: two entwined garlands form an ovoid in which hangs a medallion. Third row: A plant candelabrum with a standing figure in the center and with an oblong framing a lozenge further up. Fourth row: A candelabrum in the scheme of a stem forming the frames of two ovoids and of an oblong in the center. Figures are in each of the three compartments. Above and below are oblongs. Fifth row: two parts of shells alternate four times with ovoids with figures. ABove and below only quarter of the shells are shown.
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: 1938-88-1471
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 lined off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 26.9 x 19 cm (10 9/16 x 7 1/2 in.)