Design for an Oil Lamp
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1810
name: label: Designer
content: Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle. Upon a high foliated stand the body of the lamp is supported by the lion feet of half-figures of Egyptian women, whose heads serve as spouts. Cover with high handle, ending above in two snakes, surrounded below by half-figures of women. Inscription at bottom. For the capital of the stand and the half-figure at right respectively a new slip of paper has been applied or the originally used paper cut out and turned.
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: 1938-88-600
objectType: label: Type
content: metalwork
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, gray watercolor, graphite on light blue paper
label: Dimensions
content: 38.6 × 19.2 cm (15 3/16 × 7 9/16 in.)