Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Below is a socle with three panels. The lateral compartments are framed rectangularly; the central, higher one has above pieces of the wall and the conch of a niche. Beside the conch are parts of the support of the triangular pediment, with festoons hanging from the keystone upon the lower ends. In the pediment is a shell, on top a star. In front of the pipes, in the center, are scrolls beside a mask and a flower basket, laterally crossed branches. Usual background.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
- Date
- 1780-1790
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid
- Dimensions
- 25.4 x 15.8 cm (10 x 6 1/4 in.)
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
