Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- The shaft is similar to -1411, the bowl to -1406. The lid has below a base with two zones, the lower one being undecorated, except with a broken pediment at the front. Upon the base stands a pyramid-like, curved pedestal with, ton top, a bunch of lilies and cherubim. Below the oblique sides are cherubim and palm branches. 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
- 27.1 x 18.6 cm (10 11/16 x 7 5/16 in.)
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
