Design for a Vase Clock in Egyptian Style
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1800
name: label: Designer
content: Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle. Design for a vase clock intended to be executed in green and gilded bronze, and white and red marble. Two pairs of columns standing upon a base support an architrave, upon which two sphinxes are lying, supporting the clock; two urns stand at the outsides. Before the inner columns stand two Egyptian male figures, a circular altar in the center. Plan view below elevation, scale at bottom.
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: 1938-88-596
objectType: label: Type
content: timepieces & measuring devices
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and ink, brush and sepia wash, watercolor, graphite on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 20.7 × 14.9 cm (8 1/8 × 5 7/8 in.)