Chairs
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1785–1790
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: In the center is an armchair, seen from the front, with upholstered seat and oval back. The supports of the arms have triglyph shape. The back has laterally two framing pillars with floral candelabra. At left: above a sketch of an armchair, seen from the front. With upholstered seat and back. The latter is laterally and above framed by a kind of escutcheon. Below is a chair, seen from the side, the back being at right. The arms are straight and are supported in front and at the back by curved boards. At right: above is a chair, seen from the side, the back being at right. The arms are supported at the front by supports with a bird's head. They form the upper frame of a rectangle, with an inscribedl ozenge. Below: an armchair in the same position. The arm is a scroll springing from the back, with a spiral upon the frame of the seat. 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: 1938-88-2046
objectType: label: Type
content: furniture
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 off-white laid paper, lined
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 19.6 x 26.7 cm (7 11/16 x 10 1/2 in.)