Design for a Candelabrum.
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1855
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The body of the lamp is a blue porcelain vase with an oval central field depicting a pair of figures against a light background, enclosed in a narrow gold frame. Mounted on a bronze base, surmounted by a candelabrum in the form of branches with leaves and flowers, the candle-holder rising from the flowers. Inscribed lower left: "Candelabra porcel. and Bronze a 9 bougies;" at lower right "hauteur 84c;" lower center: "No.70."
place: label: made in
content: France
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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 from Pauline Riggs Noyes Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1953-206-6
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pencil, ink, watercolor, tempera colors on tracing paper
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 43.7 x 28.1 cm (17 3/16 x 11 1/16 in.)