Design for a Candlestick, Cup, and Vase
date: label: Date
content: 1770
name: label: Artist
content: Jean-Charles Delafosse, French, 1734 – 1789
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Objects to be executed in gold or silver. At left: candlestick showing mermaid holding a socket. Her entwined fish body forms the stand. Center: a cup with handles formed by snakes above lion masks, body decorated with acanthus leaf design. At right: a fluted vase decorated with drapery festoons and two masks.
place: label: made in
content: France
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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: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1911-28-66
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 black ink, brush and wash on white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 18.9 x 25.3 cm (7 7/16 x 9 15/16 in.)