Three Designs for Candlesticks
date: label: Date
content: 1802
name: label: Designer
content: Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle. Three designs for candlesticks labeled A, B,C from left to right. The inscription, "Qui ci va, etc." as written in 1938-88-624, appears in the pedestals of all three candlesticks. At left, candlestick A is supported by crouching lions carrying calyces. The pedestal is a richer variation of the one that appears in E in 1938-88-624. The shaft is a foliated baluster above a calyx. At center, B is supported by tortoises upon knobs. The shaft has, below, a bowl in the two calyces; above, a fluted column. At left, C is also supported by tortoises. The shaft consists of a calyx in opposite direction, a capital, and of a column with a base, calyx, spiral flutes and scallops. Verso: plan of a base and inscriptions.
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: 1938-88-626
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 sepia wash, gray, yellow watercolor, graphite on light blue paper
label: Dimensions
content: 33.5 × 39.6 cm (13 3/16 × 15 9/16 in.)