Design for a Pair of Candelabra
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1820
name: label: Designer
content: Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle. The supporting female figures that appear in 1938-88-653 stand upon parts of fluted columns as pedestals. They carry in their raised hands, which face each other, trumpets to which rinceaux are fastened unilaterally. Three burning candles are on each stick. The girl at left carries in her lowered right hand a basket, the other in her left hand a pitcher. Framing line. Verso: a slight graphite sketch of 1938-88-5810, with shorter candles.
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: 1938-88-664
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: 33 × 22.1 cm (13 in. × 8 11/16 in.)