Design for a Ceiling
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Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Design for a ceiling over a square comparetment, representing a dome with large oculus and large lunettes on each side. Spandrels support crouching atlantid figures. Oculus and lunettes filled with figures in clouds.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Walter Gay
- early 17th century
- Accession Number
- 1915-10-1
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and ink on paper, sepia and blue watercolor on paper
- Dimensions
- 31.5 × 31.5 cm (12 3/8 × 12 3/8 in.)
- made in
- France
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1915-10-1
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4e5fd8968-a521-4c27-b9bb-63cbdda9b381
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