Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- The bowl has below a leaf chalice and above a protruding band with festoons supported by bow-knots. It is supported by a square base, with a plinth below and an upper molded panel with two lead chalices at the sides and rinceaux springing from a head in the inner panel. The lid forms a high curved pedestal, with a row of upright scrolls with chrubim in the lower intervals. On top St. John the Baptist as boy, sitting. Usual background.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
- Date
- ca. 1775
- 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
- 27 x 18.7 cm (10 5/8 x 7 3/8 in.)
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
