Design for Ceiling, City Hall, Vienna, Austria
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1880
name: label: Designer
content: Friedrich von Schmidt, German, 1825 - 1891
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical format. At left, part of a ceiling showing four panels with sixteen sides, a panel shaped like an equal cross, and four halves and four quarters. The cross is decorated with a blossom rosette at center and four palmettes. Two rosettes are suggested for the other panels with four different colorings of the background. Various designs for leaf stems; garlands are suggested for the bands representing the panels. Top right: a band with an acanthus rinceau between two strips. Bottom right: an octagonal coffer with a rosette. Eight designs are shown for the framing band. Half of the designs have different colorings. Rosettes are suggested in the panels and shaped like eight-pointed stars between the octagonals.
place: label: made in
content: Austria
label: place depicted
content: Vienna, Austria
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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 from the Mary Hearn Greims Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1940-21-1
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: Brush and watercolor, pen and black ink, graphite on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 31.5 x 22.4 cm (12 3/8 x 8 13/16 in.)