Altar Lamp
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1825
name: label: Designer
content: Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle. Design for an altar lamp hung from three chains, starting from calyces upon the heads of birds. Two waved garlands of leaves are intertwined at the body. The birds stand between the garlands, and a mask is at the front. Three flames burn at lamp's opening.
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: 1938-88-622
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 gray ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 27.3 x 14.9 cm (10 3/4 x 5 7/8 in.)