Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Part of a ceiling shown. At center, a blank octagonal frame flanked laterally with rectangles, the right one with scrolling ornament. Below two lozenge-shapes are decorated with putti and arabesques. At center, a mermaid. Frames are decorated with guilloche and rosettes. Two larger rosettes at the lower corners.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- 16th century
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink with brown, blue and yellow wash Support: off-white paper on secondary paper support
- Type
- interiors
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
