Designs for Altar Candlesticks and Candle Brackets
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle. At left and right, two candlesticks with hexagonal bases with concave sides, supported by leaf scrolls. In the decorations of the candlestick at left, scallops of a cloth with tassels. A mask is at the upper knob. The candlestick at right has cherubim at the oblique sides of the upper section of the pedestal. The bowl below its socket has the shape of a shell. The brackets, either for one candle, are in the center. They are drawn in a vertical row, in profile with the wall at right. The forms consist of scrolls. Part of the candles are also 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: 1938-88-556
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 ink, brush and gray watercolor, black chalk on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 33.6 × 22.3 cm (13 1/4 × 8 3/4 in.)