Ceiling of a Bedroom
date: label: Date
content: 1820–23
name: label: Designer
content: Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle. Above and below bands with ornament in middle. Remainder divided into lozenge, four triangles. Inside trophies of objects. In center of lozenges two flying female genii, seen in profile, raising their outside arms with wreath, supporting their inside hands caduceus. They are framed by circle formed by garlands connected by bowknots. In lower corner of lozenges, pencil sketch for band cresting border. Center right edge, inscription by Giani horizontally: "camera da letto."
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: 1938-88-3064
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture, interiors
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and dark brown ink, brush and watercolors with black, red, violet and blue washes over traces of graphite on paper.
label: Dimensions
content: 30.2 x 26.5 cm (11 7/8 x 10 7/16 in.)