Candlestick
date: label: Date
content: 1780–1795
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The lower and the upper half are detailed at left and at right. The entire design is in the middle. The base is supported by crouching lions. The lower part of the shaft has the shape of a cup carried by a circle of sitting women. The upper part is a baluster again supported by sitting figures. Its lower part is surrounded by a calyx, the upper by standing women holding each other's hands. Three of them are shown.
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: 1938-88-2038
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, black chalk on off-white laid paper, lined
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 27 x 19.9 cm (10 5/8 x 7 13/16 in.)