Design for a Candlestick
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1800
name: label: Designer
content: Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle. Design for a candlestick intended to be executed in gilded and green bronze, and white and green marble. At bottom, the lower part of a column supported by three lion feet forms the base. Upon it stands a base with a calyx, out of which spring four column shafts growing in width and bound together by two bands. On their top are springing from masks four branches with burning candles. Above, a bowl with flowers and a column in the center, with ivy, and a socket with a burning candle. Scale at bottom.
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: 1938-88-595
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, yellow, gray, green watercolor, graphite on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 24.2 × 13 cm (9 1/2 × 5 1/8 in.)