Design for a Candlestick with a Clock
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
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 candlestick with clock intended to be executed in gilded and green bronze and white and colored marble. Two golden lying dogs at bottom support an oval base. clock situated above between statues of Apollo and Diana, both sitting. Upon the clock are standing two genii respectively holding a lyre and a bow. A column above has on top a large vase with flowers, it is standing in a bowl with leaves, from which two branches for the burning candles are springing. Two cranes are fastened with their backs along the shaft of the column. 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: 1938-88-594
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 watercolor, graphite on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 44.4 × 33.9 cm (17 1/2 × 13 3/8 in.)