Candlestick
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1780
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The statue of a woman in heavy clothes with a flower basket upon her head stands upon a piece of column which is decorated with festoons. Laterally springs (the left one is not shown) from a mask a scroll with a calyx, from which three branches spring. Only the lowest part of that at right is shown. On top are sockets in the shape of calyxes, with the lower part of candles. Background as 1938-88-2024.
place: label: made in
content: Rome, Italy
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1938-88-2025
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 on off-white laid paper, lined
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 28.1 x 17.7 cm (11 1/16 x 6 15/16 in.)