Designs for a Mantelpiece, Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined, The left halves are shown. Left row: an entablature is supported by a column with a frieze and representations around it; it is without a capital. Below: the entablature is supported by two caryatids standing upon bases. Center: the opening is framed by stripes. The upper part is decorated with drapery festoons. In front, at left, a trophy of carpenter tools, in the center an Egyptian head, behind which are a carpenter's square, an oar and trident, crossed. Inside the opening, an Egyptian woman sits upon a fluted column, in front of the left wall, in profile. Below is a dado with a crouching lion, with an urn on its back. Sketched inside the opening is the left side of a couped obelisk with the forepart of a sphinx, shown in profile, laterally. At the front a trophy of arms. Right row: the entablature is supported by a pilaster strip, with the sun above. Beside it are two female figures with flower pots upon their heads. Beside, at left, a sketch for the decoration of the molding. Below, the lower part has the shape of a molded frame, with a caryatid standing inside. Above is an entablature with a frieze in which sphinxes support circular medallions. Colored background., Rome, Italy, ca. 1785, interiors, Drawing, Drawing
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