Design for a Chimneypiece, with an Elaborate Overmantel
date: label: Date
content: 1750–1775
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Shown are the right side of the upper part the moldings framing the opening nearly entirely. A pedestal in the general shape of a pediment stands upon the shelf. It contains laterally spherical quadrangles, in the center are ovoidal looking glasses. On top stands a vase with flowers upon a bracket. The background is shaped like an angular niche with festoons hanging from the upper corners to the vase. Two flanking door cases are indicated.
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: 1938-88-8226
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Black chalk, pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 14.1 × 14.1 cm (5 9/16 × 5 9/16 in.)