Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- A mask is at the shaft. Two mermaids are shown in profile with their backs at the cup, like handles. The left one has the arms lowered, the right one has them crossed before the breast. A row of leaves is around the lowest part of the cup. A festoon hangs behind the necks of the figures. Colored background.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
- Date
- ca. 1785
- 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
- Dimensions
- Image: 12.7 x 8.3 cm (5 x 3 1/4 in.)
- Type
- metalwork
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
