Three Designs for Candlesticks
date: label: Date
content: 1802
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle. Three designs for candlesticks. At left: the feet of the candlestick consist of rumps of birds. Within the base is the inscription: qui ci va / lo stemma / di chi li fa fare; the shaft consists of four parts. In the lowest one the column rises from a calyx. In the second are festoons. The third is scalloped; the fourth fluted. Upon the capital stands a bowl, from which the socket rises. Center: the pedestal of the candlestick consists of lateral leaf scrolls and a central support at which is written: qui ci va lo stemma; the lower part of the shaft is a vase, above which two calyces rise. The upper one supports similar motifs to the left one. At right, the base is decorated with festoons supported by masks. The shaft is a foliated column. That at left is marked with a cross in ink. Each of the candlesticks are numbered with the letters D, E, F from left to right.
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: 1938-88-624
objectType: label: Type
content: lighting
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and ink, brush and yellow, red, gray watercolor, graphite on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 35.5 × 43.7 cm (14 in. × 17 3/16 in.)