Design for the Decoration of a Panel
date: label: Date
content: 1780-1790
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Below is a pedestal with crouching sphinxes at its corners. They support with their heads flower pots from which candelabra rise, with winged half-figures on top supporting with their raised hands a garland and festoons. Three women, embracing each other, stand upon the pedestal. The two lateral ones support with their arms the squrae frame of a landscape. Above it is a floral candelabrum with two half figures. Below, at the front of the pedestal, sits a putto, his hands resting upon two festoons.
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: 1938-88-1440
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 lined off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 23.1 x 12.2 cm (9 1/8 x 4 13/16 in.)