Grotesque for an Oblong Panel
date: label: Date
content: 1730–50
name: label: Artist
content: Filippo Marchionni, Italian, 1732–1805
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: In the center is a candelabrum with a bearded mask sticking out an enormous tong, below, with a cup in the center. From it emerge two animals’ heads, with ribbon-like reins which are held by a fantastic bat flying on top. Laterally are half-figures of a satyress at left, giving a stem to a satyr at right to eat. He satyr has an animal’s head, is facing her, and is supporting a bowl. The half figures rise from scrolls with a fantastic male sphinx below at left, head at right. At left a mermaid, at right a satyress and plants.
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: 1901-39-173
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 gray watercolor on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 12.1 x 18.1 cm (4 3/4 x 7 1/8 in.)