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Design for a table with decorated base

Design for a table supported in the center by a fluted column, decorated in its middle with a relief displaying figures surrounded by a drapery festoon hanging from ram's heads. A secondary leg springs from the lower corner of the frame of the relief and is supported by a lion's foot.

Credit: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund

c. 1780
Brush and black and grey wash, pen and black ink on paper
1938-88-2091
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020

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