Decoration of a Frieze
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Object Details
- Architect
- Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- The top half is an assembly of plants and an eight-pointed star is visible to the right. The bottom half depicts a male head with plant ornaments decorating his head. A wing of a bird is visible on the left side of the man’s head.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors
- 18th-19th century
- Accession Number
- 1901-39-1333
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- ornament
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined
- Dimensions
- Image: 23.2 x 19.4 cm (9 1/8 x 7 5/8 in.)
- made in
- Italy
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1901-39-1333
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq42ae3f8a5-c4ed-48d0-a6f5-297f231f5957
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