Design for a Chimneypiece
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1800
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle. Design for a chimneypiece intended to be executed in white marble with a small band in gilt bronze. Pillars at the sides, the bodies with rinceaux springing from acanthus calyxes, the capitals with two theatrical masks with alternative sugestions. An inner framing frieze is decorated with grotesque candelabra. The center of the friezes above is projecting: two eagles are in a square supporting a festoon; above, a theatrical mask. At the outsides are two ram's heads with garlands. Above mouldings. The friezes beside the capitals show rinceaux. Below the scale.
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: 1938-88-643
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: Pen and ink, brush and gray, yellow watercolor, graphite on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 38.3 × 48.8 cm (15 1/16 × 19 3/16 in.)