Design for a Putto Frieze of a Plate
date: label: Date
content: 1815–30
name: label: Designer
content: Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle. Design for a circular plate outlined in graphite, the design for the frieze rendered in pen and ink. The figures of putti along the frieze carry, singularly or in pairs: a tiara, a sword, keys, a candelabrum, a ciborium, an umbrella, an altar lamp, a pastoral staff and a candelabrum, a mitre, a chasuble, a censer, a chalice and host, a cross, an umbrella, a mitre, a pastoral staff, a censer, a pallium, a tabernacle with chalice and host, a pitcher, an able, and a book. Between the putti carrying the pitcher and albe, two putti kneel in adoration.
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: 1938-88-569
objectType: label: Type
content: ceramics
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and black ink, graphite on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 26.3 × 27.5 cm (10 3/8 × 10 13/16 in.)