Candlestick
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1780–1785
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Below is a high pedestal, the front of which holds the oval representation of a woman. Above it, upon a base, sits a child supporting a bracket diverging into three branches, each with the lower part of a candle. Written at right, by the artist: "Putto di Argento / Cornucopia di Metal- / lo / Piedistallo di porfido / Rosso opure diaspro / duro, base e cimase / di metallo dorato con comeo in mezzo / di Alabastro". Usual background.
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: 1938-88-2037
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: 25.9 x 15.2 cm (10 3/16 x 6 in.)