Three Designs for Candlesticks
date: label: Date
content: 1803
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle. Three designs for candlesticks, all supported by lion feet. At left, the bottom part of the shaft consists of acanthus scrolls, worked à jour, showing inside a standing escutcheon. A foliated, scalloped and fluted balustrade supporting the bowl with the socket from the top part. At center, the shafts consisting of seated griffins, worked à jour, connected by festoons and flanking a papal escutcheon. On them stands a base upon which the animals of the Evangelists support the sphere upon which are shown the allegorical figures of Justice or Strength, Faith, and Love. A calyx rises over them, supporting the bowl and socket. At right, a calyx supports a baluster, the bottom part of which is covered by a calyx, from which vine stem rises. The top is similar to other designs. A scale at bottom. Two framing lines at bottom, partly cut off.
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: 1938-88-625
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 black ink, brush and gray wash, watercolor, traces of graphite on off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 34.3 × 42.1 cm (13 1/2 × 16 9/16 in.)