Console tables
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1785–1790
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Above a left side: the leg is a chimera seen from the front, the upper parts of which are framed by two scrolls supporting a festoon in front of the leg, and another one hanging toward the center of the frieze. Frame and top form an entablature with, in the center, an oval medallion with a figure in front of it. Below hangs a festoon. Below, at right: the support is a lyre and the scrolls of half-figures of sphinxes beside it. Below is a base. Festoons hang from rinceaux. Usual background.
place: label: made in
content: Rome, Italy
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
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: 1938-88-2084
objectType: label: Type
content: furniture
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: 16.1 x 22.3 cm (6 5/16 x 8 3/4 in.)