Design for a Gas Lamp and Candelabrum
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1855
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: This drawing depicts a candelabrum and gas lamp consisting of a tall-necked porcelain vase in a floral design. The vase is mounted on a gilt-bronze tri-footed base, with putti flanking a coat-of-arms surmounting a female mask. Twenty candle arms encircle the gas lamp.
place: label: made in
content: France
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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 from Pauline Riggs Noyes Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1953-206-4
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, gouache, pen and blue ink over graphite on tracing paper
label: Dimensions
content: 43.5 x 27.3 cm (17 1/8 x 10 3/4 in.)