Candlesticks, Probably for the Palazzo Altieri, Rome
date: label: Date
content: 1789–1793
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Left row: above a monumental column, with a bracket on top with three branches with candles. Below: a socket, a plan. Right row: above, upon a console stand two branches like cornucopias fastened by a wreath. In the center rises another one carrying a candle. Below: a similar bracket with two candles stands upon a column which is supported by winged half-figures.
place: label: made in
content: Rome, Italy
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-88-2023
objectType: label: Type
content: metalwork
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 26.8 x 10.3 cm (10 9/16 x 4 1/16 in.)