Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- The bowl is supported by a molded base. The lid has the shape of a pedestal which is decorated at the front with an oval medallion with the representation of the baptism of Christ, hanging from a bowknot in the frieze of the entablature. The oblique sides have volutes, with cherubim above the lower spirals. Above the entablature rises another pedestal, supported a cross above a globe. Beside it sits two angels, supporting with their hands a festoon and shouldering a lily stems. 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
- 27.3 x 19.8 cm (10 3/4 x 7 13/16 in.)
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
