Design for a Candlestick
date: label: Date
content: 1840–65
name: label: Maker
content: Unknown, Italian
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Base has two dolphins surrounding a shell. Above, on either side two mermaids seated back to back with arms linked, heads tilted back with mouths open looking at bunches of grapes hanging from the socket. Sketched is an alternate for the upper portion of their bodies.
place: label: made in
content: 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: 1938-88-5237
objectType: label: Type
content: lighting
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite; pen and brown ink; brush and sepia watercolor on off white paper
label: Dimensions
content: 20.5 x 18.8 cm (8 1/16 x 7 3/8 in.)