Design for a Baptismal Font
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1775
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Below is a plinth and a short shaft, with a row of cherubim. The lower part and the rim of the bowl are separated by moldings with a shorter diameter. The lid has the shape of an angular pedestal with oblique short sides at which cherubim are, above, supporting festoons. On top are three cherubim with lilies in clouds. 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: 1938-88-1408
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
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 lined off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 27.1 x 19.9 cm (10 11/16 x 7 13/16 in.)