Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- The mensa stands upon a half-circular platform to which steps lead. Four angels stand upon parts of of columns upon high pedestals and support half of a crown with curtains as baldachin. Laterally in front are two statues of angels with candles. Above, at right, is a rough pen sketch with the idea of having the angels standing immediately upon the pedestals.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
- Date
- 1746-1809
- 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 paper
- Dimensions
- 26.5 x 18.8 cm (10 7/16 x 7 3/8 in.)
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
