Design for a Chimneypiece with Borghese Dancers
date: label: Date
content: 1780–1800
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The fireplace is framed by moldings and stripes. Fluted pilasters are laterally. Ramheads with blossom festoons are in the capitals. Above is a high entablature with an unornamented frieze. In the center in front of the lower part of the entablature and the stripe above the opening is a relief with the five dancers as in 1938-88-8202 without the pilasters. A greek band is below the relief. Ramheads are shown in profile laterally at the upper corners. They support festoons, which hang in the framing stripes. Shadow, base line, planes, scale as in 1938-88-8196.
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: 1938-88-8202
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite, pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 30.7 × 39.8 cm (12 1/16 × 15 11/16 in.)