Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Horizontal rectangle. At top left, an angel, holding boughs of a tree supporting four burning candles, sits beside a tabernacle, the left part of which is shown. It has the shape of a pavilion and Christ is sketched upon the door. At bottom, the left upper part of the mensa (altar stone) is shown with a ledge ending at right at the tabernacle in the shape of a pavilion.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
- Date
- 1750–80
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash on off-white laid paper, lined
- Dimensions
- H x W: 19.5 × 26.3 cm (7 11/16 × 10 3/8 in.)
- Type
- furniture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
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