Design for Frieze Decoration, with Alternative Suggestions
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
name: label: Possibly
content: Mauro Antonio Tesi, Italian, 1730 - 1766
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: In the center of an escutcheon, with the head of an animal on top. Festoons are supported by half-figures, seen at left from the right front, at right from left back. At left a woman sits upon a scroll. At right a woman with a bowl kneels upon a leaf volute. The festoons are supported outside by rosettes.
place: label: made in
content: 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: 1938-88-6692
objectType: label: Type
content: ornament
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown ink, graphite, on cream laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 9.3 x 20.8 cm (3 11/16 x 8 3/16 in.)