Pedestal
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Left: the left half is shown. A burning heart in a glory of rays in a barrel wreath is shown in the panel of the front. A gaine of a kind is disposed obliquely at the corner, having on top a cherub. Right: somewhat more than the left half is shown. A similar burning heart is surrounded by laurel branches. Framed by a frame, the upper side of which is shaped as a triangular cornice. A cherub on top of a volute is at the corner. Colored background.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- ca. 1780
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-1812
- Designer
- Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- metalwork
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, red ink on off-white laid paper, lined
- Dimensions
- Image: 13.8 x 20.5 cm (5 7/16 x 8 1/16 in.)
- made in
- Rome, Italy
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Record ID
- chndm_1938-88-1812
