Two Designs for Altar Frames with Alternative Suggestions
date: label: Date
content: early 19th century
name: label: Designer
content: Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle. Two designs for two frames, probably for altar tablets, each with alternative suggestions, probably intended to be executed in white marble and gilded bronze. At left, design for a frame with three compartments. On top of both an oval medallion with alternatively garlands or cherubim outside. In the appliques below are suggested either garlands with vine leaves or entwined bands. If finials are applied, a star with eight points is proposed. At right, design for a frame with one compartment with the same decorative motifs.
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: 1938-88-604
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 ink, brush and sepia wash, yellow and red watercolor, graphite on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 28 × 54.2 cm (11 in. × 21 5/16 in.)