Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- The legs have eagle's feet. The central one has the shape of fasces, with the ax turned toward left; the lateral ones are round posts surrounded by a garland. The legs are connected above the feet. Upon the table stands a candlestick. Upright dolphins supported with their tails a bowl in which a dolphin stands upright. From the rim spring two branches, each one with a candle. Usual background.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
- Date
- ca. 1795
- 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: 23.1 x 9.2 cm (9 1/8 x 3 5/8 in.)
- Type
- furniture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
