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Table centerpiece
Giovanni Battista Fogginica. 1750–60
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
A table centerpiece formed in four sections as flowing rococo scrollwork shaded in tones of iron-red, puce, yellow, blue and green. Partially draped figures in various stances each holding a taperstick in the form of an elongated white cornucopia banded in gilding.
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Details
- Title: Table centerpiece
- Creator: Giovanni Battista Foggini
- Creator Lifespan: 1652/1725
- Date Created: ca. 1750–60
- Type: Table centerpiece
- Rights: Museum purchase from Charles E. Sampson Memorial and General Acqusitions Endowment Funds
- Medium: Porcelain, gilding
- Exhibitions: "Rococo: The Continuing Curve," Cooper-Hewitt, New York, 3/6/08-7/7/08
- Dimensions: H x W x D (a): 9 x 14.8 x 28 cm (3 9/16 x 5 13/16 x 11 in.)H x W x D (b): 11.5 x 16 x 27 cm (4 1/2 x 6 5/16 x 10 5/8 in.)H x W x D (c): 14 x 16 x 28 cm (5 1/2 x 6 5/16 x 11 in.)H x W x D (d): 11.5 x 17 x 25.5 cm (4 1/2 x 6 11/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
- Bibliography: Ars Ceramica, No. 5 McFadden, David Past and Present: Recent Acquisitions in Ceramics at Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design 1988, pp 44-49, ill p. 47, fig 8
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