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Design for an Embroidered Frontal

Object Details

Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
More than the left half is shown. In the center, is a circular medallion with a cross. Beside are spherical pentagons, with rosettes in irregular quadrangles in the center of rinceau palmettes. Outside are: an oblong with sheaves rising from a calix, and a pillar strip with a candelabrum having in its center top a lozenge with a rosette and grapes. The strip is framed by garlands; so is the central part, the subdivisions of which are framed by moldings.
Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Designer
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
Date
1810-1830
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
18.7 x 23.8 cm (7 3/8 x 9 3/8 in.)
Type
embroidery & stitching
Object Name
Drawing
Type
Drawing
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