Two Designs for 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 left: the support is a siren with a tail forming a circle below the center of the frame, with the representation of three figures in the inside. One scroll downards. The frame is supported by the shoulder, the top by the head. At right chimerae with the busts of women with butterfly wings and raised arms are the supports. Below they are connected by a wreath. Below the frame is a calyx or a shell from which festoons hang towards the legs, and a trophy of a pan flute and a clarinette hang in the center. Frame and top-like cornices of an entablature. 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: 1938-88-2075
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: 19.7 x 24.4 cm (7 3/4 x 9 5/8 in.)