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Design for Two Small Breakfast Tables

Object Details

Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Sheet of designs for a table divided horizontally into two parts. At the upper part, an elevation (left) and section (right) of a table with four legs, connected by crossed laths. Round wooden top frame with round marble top. Inscription below each elevation and section. At the lower part, there are three renderings: a marble top, round, with inscribed rectangle (left); a plan of the wooden top frame with a red horizontal line with the letters A and B and a dotted circle around, C (center); a marble top with a circle in the frame (right); there are captions below each drawing; the indication of scale is placed along the bottom of the sheet. At the top of the sheet is another inscription. The sheet is signed at the lower right corner.
Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Designer
Angelo Mezzetti, Italian
Date
early 19th century
Credit Line
Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
Medium
Pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, gold paint on white paper, lined with blue paper
Dimensions
25.3 × 35.7 cm (9 15/16 × 14 1/16 in.)
Type
furniture
Object Name
Drawing
Type
Drawing
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