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Design for a Gate of a Villa

Carlo Marchionni1750–55

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Pilasters with mounds on top frame of the opening. Volutes connect their upper parts with the garden wall, the nearest parts to the gate of which are shaped as panels flanked by pilasters. A man stand in the opening. Measurements are inscribed. On verso: “Debbito di…(?) Lem Le / Credito mio / Gerchecca (?) / …(?) in man d(I) G…o(?)Cunder(?)” and struck out accounts.

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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