Designs for Silver Serving Pieces
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: Horizontal rectangle. Designs for silver serving pieces decorated with female masks from which a bunch of grapes and leaves are suspended. Medusa masks, serpents, and mouldings form the primary decorative motifs. Identifying captions accompany each illustration. In the top row, from left to right: a soup bowl and its plate, the inscription "Zappiera" above and "Piatto" below; a tray with a bottle cooler and four glasses, the inscription "Vaso p[er] Bottigha e Porta bichiere / sotto da Dismetere" above; a coffee pot shown in profile, the handle formed by a snake, the inscription "Caffeteria" above; an ovoidal soup bowl with ovoidal plate, the inscription "Terina" above and "Piatto" below. Center row, from left to right: a salt bowl with the spoon shown over it, the inscription "Salziera" above; an oil cruet with two bottles, the inscription "Portaglio" above; a round tureen with spoon above, the inscription "Sgommvaello [?] / Tazza zil Poncio" surrounding the spoon; a plate, the inscription "Tondino" at center; a plate warmer, the inscription "Scaldavivande" above. At bottom center, a salt bowl, the inscription "Salziera" above.
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: 1938-88-657
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 gray ink, brush and gray wash, graphite, ruled borders in pen and black ink on white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 31.4 x 50.5 cm (12 3/8 x 19 7/8 in.)