Design for the Decoration of a Candle with Bracket
date: label: Date
content: 1655–67
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for the decoration of a candle. Upon the candle is a medallion with a representation of the figure of St. Luke painting the Madonna; above and below are scrolls of ribbon. Above, of what seems to be the front of the bracket, is an escutcheon with the coat of arms of Pope Alexander VII, with only the charges of the mounts and the star. Below the right half of the frame of an escutcheon, with a head in the center on top. Uneven left edge.
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: 1938-88-3100
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, graphite on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 20.8 × 4.3 cm (8 3/16 × 1 11/16 in.)