Desing for an Oil Lamp
date: label: Date
content: mid- 19th century
name: label: Probably
content: Vincenzo Belli, Italian, 1710 - 1787
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle. Design for an oil-burning lamp. Below is a moulded base. The figure of a menad is shown in three-quarter profile dancing upon a sphere and turned toward left. Her right hand holds her skirt, her left hand the thyrsus to which the lamp is fastened.
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: 1938-88-667
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 ink, brush and gray watercolor, graphite on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 37.8 × 22.2 cm (14 7/8 × 8 3/4 in.)