Console table with timepiece
The table has four legs. Frame and top are an entablature with festoons in the frieze. The time piece has a base below with the dial, above a round colonnade with a cupola. Inside is a female figure. Usual background.
Credit: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
c. 1785-1790
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper
1938-88-2078
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020
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