Design for Overmirror Decoration, Blank Roundel with Grotesques, for the Noble Cabinet of the Palazzo Altieri
date: label: Date
content: 1789–1793
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The scheme of 1901-39-1371; no representation in the circle. The festoons are supported by four bowknots, the outer ones are crossed by a wreath. Below, at left, is a base supporting a lamp and two vases with a flower stem. At right is a base with a statue upon a circular pedestal, between two lamps, supported by flower stems rising from a vase.
label: Description
content: Blank roundel, flanked by grotesques, for decoration above mirror for the noble cabinet, Palazzo Altieri. (PDM '91)
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: 1938-88-1842
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 off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 16.9 x 25.3 cm (6 5/8 x 9 15/16 in.)