Three Friezes; A Base; An Ornament
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Top row, left: vine rinceau, bucrania support festoons at right. Both friezes framed above and below by moldings. Bottom row, left: theatrical masks stand upon lower framing molding in front of pairs of crossed vine branches. Female head and scrolls situated between dolphins, frieze framed between moldings and plinth below. Winged genius stands betweens rinceaus. Verso: sketches include decoration of square ceiling. At right, tympanum with triumphal chariot. Above, leaves and sketch for genius.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- ca. 1800
- Accession Number
- 1901-39-1206
- Designer
- Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and dark brown ink on laid paper
- Dimensions
- 43.5 x 29.5 cm (17 1/8 x 11 5/8 in.)
- made in
- Italy
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Record ID
- chndm_1901-39-1206
