Designs for a Mantelpiece
date: label: Date
content: 1785–1795
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The left sides are shown. The lateral designs have consoles on top of the lateral pilaster strips. It shows a branch rising from a vase in the left design. It is ornamented in the right one. The left design shows in the center of the frieze a projecting tablet with a festoon. Central design: the pilaster strip is decorated as in the left design. Above it is a square with a rosette. Rinceaux decorate the frieze. 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: 1938-88-1686
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: 20.2 x 27.6 cm (7 15/16 x 10 7/8 in.)