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Side Chair (Probably Northern Italy)
This is a side chair. It was style of Michel Angelo Pergolesi. It is dated ca. 1785 and we acquired it in 1924. Its medium is wood, paint, gilding, textile. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
Pergolesi, an Italian designer who spent much of the 1780s in London, created engravings that influenced Italian and English furniture makers. His designs featured fantastic animal-like creatures mixed with a classical vocabulary. This chair was a gift of Countess Costantini, a Hewitt friend who collected and sold antique Italian furniture in New York.
This object was
donated by
Countess Costantino.
It is credited Gift of the Countess Costantini.
- Armchair (France)
- parcel-gilt mahogany; yellow silk/cotton (present upholstery).
- Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
- 1920-15-402
- Solid C2 Chair
- epoxy resin.
- Museum purchase from the Members' Acquisitions Fund of Cooper-Hewitt,....
- 2009-8-1
- Dado (France)
- block printed on handmade paper.
- Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
- 1931-45-77
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- Drawing, Ornament Design, Cinerary Urn and Roman Standards
- pen and ink, brush and watercolor, gouache, over graphite on laid paper.
- Gift of Unknown Donor.
- 1980-32-1431
- Drawing, Corinthian Capital
- pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash on white laid paper, lined .
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
- 1938-88-3388
- Book Illustration, Collection of original designs of vases, figures,...
- 70 leaves of plates : all ill., engravings.
- Collection of Smithsonian Institution Libraries.
- 5.2022.3
Its dimensions are
H x W x D: 100 x 46.5 x 41.5 cm (39 3/8 x 18 5/16 x 16 5/16 in.)
Cite this object as
Side Chair (Probably Northern Italy); Style of Michel Angelo Pergolesi (Italian, active ca. 1760–1801); wood, paint, gilding, textile; H x W x D: 100 x 46.5 x 41.5 cm (39 3/8 x 18 5/16 x 16 5/16 in.); Gift of the Countess Costantini; 1924-6-1
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibitions Mr. Pergolesi's Curious Things, Hewitt Sisters Collect and Campana Brothers Select: Works from the Permanent Collection.
