Design for an Oil Lamp
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
name: label: Designer
content: Giovacchino Belli, Italian, 1756 - 1822
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle. Design for an oil-burning lamp with alternative suggestions. A young Egyptian male figure stands upon a short piece of a fluted column. He carries upon his head a bowl, containing the oil. Upon it stands a vase, to which is fastened the eye shade, which is decorated with a sun. Two lamp pokers hang at a chain, which hangs through the rings of three lion masks at the body of the bowl. The alternative suggestions refer to a more or less rich ornamentation of the bowl and the vase. Base line below.
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: 1938-88-646
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 black ink, brush and gray, green, blue wash, graphite on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 64.4 × 34.3 cm (25 3/8 × 13 1/2 in.)