Candlesticks
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1790
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Upper row, at left: Two winged women stand beside a columna miliaria supporting brackets springing from it laterally, consisting of three branchces with burning candles. At right, with alternative suggestions: in the center of a base rises a columna miliaria, flanked at left by a sitting sphinx with a basket upon her head from which three burning candles spring, at right by a half-figure with a similar basket upon the head. Lower row, at left: a column standing near the end of a parapet. Center: a sketch like -2023, above, at left. At right: a similar design on a larger scale.
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: 1938-88-2032
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 brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 26.9 x 19.8 cm (10 9/16 x 7 13/16 in.)