Design for Censer and Incense Holder with Alternative Suggestions
date: label: Date
content: early 19th century
name: label: Designer
content: Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle. At left is the censer, whose upper end is at right, the chains curved; the boat is in the center below. Alternative suggestions at right provide for cherubims supporting festoons at the foot of the censer, for cherubim in clouds on top of it, for a shaft in the form of a column, and for lion masks at the body of the boat; the main decorations at left consist of flutes; on top of the censer is a basket with flowers.
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: 1938-88-629
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 yellow, brown wash, graphite on light blue laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 45.5 × 53.7 cm (17 15/16 × 21 1/8 in.)