Candelabrum
date: label: Date
content: 1815–25
name: label: Maker
content: Pierre-Philippe Thomire, French, 1751 - 1843
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A standing female figure of patinated bronze supporting branched gilt-bronze candle arms, each arm in the form of a winged female figure; the branches surmounted by a patinated putto/faun standing on a column and holding an urn-shaped bobeche; square gilt-bronze base with a scene of Europa and the bull; a patinated winged female term stands at each corner; the whole on a shaped gilt-bronze plinth.
place: label: made in
content: Paris, France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Annie-May Hegeman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1999-15-2
objectType: label: Type
content: metalwork
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: Candelabrum
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Gilt and patinated bronze
label: Dimensions
content: H x diam.: 156.5 x 53 cm (5 ft. 1 5/8 in. x 20 7/8 in.)