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Design for a Tabernacle Door to be Executed in Bronze
G B Cca. 1725
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Two angels are supporting a pavilion with the chalice and the host, the roof is shaped as a crown. Between the mantles of the angels, a socle with a pelican on top.
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Details
- Title: Design for a Tabernacle Door to be Executed in Bronze
- Creator: G B C
- Date Created: ca. 1725
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Museum purchase through gift of various donors
- Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, graphite on paper
- Provenance: Ex-Collection: Giovanni Piancastelli
- Inscribed: At lower right: "No 2" and the monogram as in -1143: GBC. Above in another handwriting, probably of the man making the comission: G. Ciacchetti; that may mean his signature or the name of the artist.
- Dimensions: 27.1 x 20.2 cm (10 11/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
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