Design for a Dresser and Chair
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1800
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle. At top, the right half of a plan for the chest of drawers with a graphite inscription. Below at left is the dresser seen from the front. Its upper drawer has laterally capitals supported by two winged female genii standing upon small balls beside the lower two drawers. Below is a vase. At right, chair seen from the front with red upholstery. The front legs have the shape of two curved and crossed cornucopias.
place: label: made in
content: 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: 1938-88-573
objectType: label: Type
content: furniture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite, brush and watercolor on light green-gray paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 23.5 × 27.8 cm (9 1/4 × 10 15/16 in.)