# Three Friezes; A Base; An Ornament

- By: Felice Giani (Italian, 1758–1823)
- Date: ca. 1800
- Medium: Pen and dark brown ink on laid paper
- Classification: Drawings
- Dimensions: 43.5 x 29.5 cm (17 1/8 x 11 5/8 in.)
- Culture: Italy
- Credit line: Museum purchase through gift of various donors
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/7681)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/2c8c59de9041d37a21ce7a862de24711.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.