Design for an Ovoidal Tureen
date: label: Date
content: early 19th century
name: label: Designer
content: Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle. Design for an ovoidal tureen. Below are a base and an ovoidal pedestal, which is surrounded by a band with an ornament of palmettes beside rosettes. The bowl is supported by female allegorical figures of the seasons, standing upon balls. Autumn is shown at left holding grapes and a wine jar, Summer is shown at right holding grain. Pairs of festoons wrap around their outermost shoulders. The handles of the tureen are pairs of snakes, rising from Medusa masks at left and right. The cover is flattened on top, where figures of Ariadne and Dionysius stand together. Scale at bottom.
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: 1938-88-653
objectType: label: Type
content: tableware designs
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and ink, brush and gray, yellow watercolor, graphite on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 49 × 34.2 cm (19 5/16 × 13 7/16 in.)