Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Central row, above: the elevation of two pedestals, one above the other, separated by a band. The front panel of the lower pedestal is decorated with marble, that of the upper one with figures. Below, a high pedestal with a frieze supported by two gaines. Above is another pedestal with a medallion and a garland at the front. The pedestal of a pillar is at the back. Below at left is a gaine with a lion mask as support of an entablature. Below at right is shown the left half of a pedestal upon which lions crouch supporting another pedestal. Colored 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: 24.2 x 19.2 cm (9 1/2 x 7 9/16 in.)
- Type
- interiors
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
