Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- The alcove has the shape of a broad niche with a spherical ceiling above the entablature. A main entrance and two lateral secondary ones are suggested. The lateral walls have the same height as the entablature above the central entrance. Above: in the center is a panel with an arch and a curtain framed laterally by piers decorated with candelabra. Above the entablature, laterally, are vases, in the center SATURNUS, sitting, and holding a sphere in his right hand. The lateral doors are framed by panels of a dado and an undecorated panel. Below the central part is a variation of -1606 below. The entablature has a frieze with triglyphs. On top is a pedestal with a sphere between two sitting figures. The sides are a variation of above. Usual background.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
- Date
- ca. 1790
- 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 off-white laid paper, lined
- Dimensions
- Image: 27.8 x 18.9 cm (10 15/16 x 7 7/16 in.)
- Type
- interiors
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
