Design for an Inkstand
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Italian, 1762 - 1844
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Base formed by fantastic fishes and a mask. Stand at the center with two birds. On either side a woman, the left holding a lyre, both sitting on the back of a headless sphinx.
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1901-39-988
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite, pen and ink, brush and wash on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 26.5 × 17.9 cm (10 7/16 × 7 1/16 in.)