Three chalices
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: At left: upon a high foot stands an urn with festoons supported by cherubim, supporting a short twisted column. The lower part of the bowl is decorated with a row of leaves with st ems in the invervals. Center: the stem is a baluster with an oval medallion above a row of leaves at the front. The lower part of the bowl is surrounded by a row of cherubim. At right in a smaller scale: the lower part of the stem is an urn supporting a baluster. The lower part of the bowl is decorated with cherubim framed above by horizontal branches. Usual background.
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: 1938-88-1944
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 off-white laid paper, lined
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 17.6 x 27.2 cm (6 15/16 x 10 11/16 in.)