Drawing, Designs for an Altar Mensa, 1750–80 (CH 18544671)
Summary
Horizontal rectangle. At top left, an angel, holding boughs of a tree supporting four burning candles, sits beside a tabernacle, the left part of which is shown. It has the shape of a pavilion and Christ is sketched upon the door. At bottom, the left upper part of the mensa (altar stone) is shown with a ledge ending at right at the tabernacle in the shape of a pavilion.
Tags
Date
1780
Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Copyright info
public domain