Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Horizontal rectangle. Design for a salt or pepper cellar. At right is the elevation: below is a base decorated with a wave ornament, with part of a sphere in the center. Four curved legs stand upon it. Above, the legs lead to masks, supporting vine festoons.They are connected by a moulding with a fret band. Above are slopes as handles. Upon the sphere stands a tureen. Its elevation is drawn at left. The lower part of its body is covered by a row of leaves. On top is a figure.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828
- Date
- early 19th century
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Medium
- Pen and ink, graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 22.1 × 34.9 cm (8 11/16 × 13 3/4 in.)
- Type
- tableware designs
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
