Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Figural group surrounding an urn on a pedestal. Three blindfolded children surround the vase, each clutching it. A flying putto, who has uncovered his eyes, holds a ball above. In an escutcehon at the pedestal is inscribed: "MVNIFICENTIE / ET / MAGNIFICENTIE / DECVS." A woman standing at left embraces the vase and holds a cornucopia under which the foreparts of a griffin are shown. A woman, at right, holds a mace and a crown over a circular domed architectural structure carried by a child. Framing lines.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Marc Antonio Franceschini, Italian, 1648 – 1729
- Date
- 1689–94
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors
- Medium
- Pen and ink, brush and black wash, black chalk on paper
- Dimensions
- 41.3 × 29 cm (16 1/4 × 11 7/16 in.)
- Type
- architecture, interiors
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
