Designs for Five Console Tables, Three with Candlesticks, Probably for Rooms in the Palazzo Altieri, Rome
date: label: Date
content: 1787–1793
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Above the top of the table is supported by the head and the hands of a gaine, above is is a candlestick consisting of a monumental column, with a sphere on top, from which three branches rise. Below: a column supports the top central row; above: A sphynx supports the top; the pedestal of the candlestick is shown. Shown from the left corner. Below: the same design shows from the front. The candlestick has the same design, as above at left. Right row: a chimera is the support; above is the candlestick.
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: 1938-88-2014
objectType: label: Type
content: metalwork
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, lined
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 22 x 19.8 cm (8 11/16 x 7 13/16 in.)