Design for a Baptismal Font
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1775
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The plan of the bowl is like -1410, the support is a variation of that in -1420, the receding frieze being decorated alternatively with a fleur-de-lis, and an upright acanthus leaf. The front of the bowl is decorated with a framed relief, probably representing the dispatch of the Apostles, six being represented, by Christ; the lateral parts are decorated by festoons. The lid has the shape of a pedestal upon a base. On its front sits an angel, supporting with his left hand the ladder, in the background are other instruments of the Passion, as the column, the spear. Above the oblique volutes are cherubim; on top is a calix with a socket from which a cross springs. 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: 1938-88-1425
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 lined off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 27.4 x 19.9 cm (10 13/16 x 7 13/16 in.)