Two Designs for Candelabra
date: label: Date
content: 1838
name: label: Designer
content: Francesco Santini, Italian, 1763 - 1840
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle. At bottom, a molded panel in the entire width of the sheet, with a plan of the bases, either with a correspondingly colored background. Above in the interval between the bases is a tablet with the scale: Piede di Bologna. The candelabra have Neo-Renaissance forms. The left one is supported by three leaf feet. The base consists of acanthus scrolls, connected below by other scrolls, and a baluster inside. The lower part of the shaft is a vase, with cherubim supporting festoons at the main part of the body, the upper a fluted baluster, with four--three are visible--as broad, curled leaves below the capital. The bowl of the socket has a cresting of curled leaves. At right: the base consists of three scrolls, the lower spirals of which are connected by a clasp, and parts of which are the feet, and of an inner vase, the mouth of which forms together with the base of the baluster a knob below at the shaft. At the rim of the vase are cherubim. The baluster has below a leaf calyx and a moulding; its shaft is fluted. The bowl of the socket has a cresting of leaves. The lower parts of the candles are visible.
place: label: made in
content: Bologna, 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: 1938-88-590
objectType: label: Type
content: lighting
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and watercolor, pen and ink, graphite, varnish on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 60.7 × 38.9 cm (23 7/8 × 15 5/16 in.)