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Design for a Ceiling Decoration
Giuseppe Maria Rolli (Italian, 1645 - 1727)
1690–1720
- Medium
- Black chalk, pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper
- Classification
- Ornaments
- Dimensions
- H x W: 14.2 × 35.3 cm (5 9/16 × 13 7/8 in.)
- Culture
- Italy
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
An imaginary frieze shown from beneath. The right half of a scrollwork escutcheon containing a vase is seperated by a bracket from another showing two alternative suggestions for its design.
