Inkstand
date: label: Date
content: 1775–1800
name: label: Architect
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle. Shown slightly from above. An oblong pedestal, the corners of which are bevelled and show protruding quadrangles, is supported by tortoises below each corner. Its front is decorated with ovoidal medallions. They are conneted by festoons. Eagles carrying garlands in their beaks stnad upon the corners. In the center is a base shaped like an entablature, upside down. In front of each side of teh base is to be a circle, with the figure, representing the seasons at the upper side of the pedetal. Two female genii stand upon a base, raising a wreath which contains the dial. In their free hands trumpets.
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: 1938-88-8183
objectType: label: Type
content: metalwork
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, graphite on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 22.2 x 30.4 cm (8 3/4 x 11 15/16 in.)