Design for a Candlestick
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1800
name: label: Designer
content: Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical rectangle. Design for a candlestick intended to be executed in gilded and green bronze and white marble. Design for a candlestick with variations similar to 1938-88-593. Base supported by two lying golden griffons. Upon a half-circular base with decorations of garlands of trophies of vessels stands a column with the statue of Apollo on top. Two arms with burning candles are springing from ram heads, below the Ionic capital. A snake is wrapped around the column. Before the column stands a tripod, between two priestesses supporting with their erected outside arms cornucopias with a burning candle in each. At the bottom, the plan of the base.
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: 1938-88-597
objectType: label: Type
content: lighting
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and ink, brush and sepia wash, watercolor, graphite on light blue paper
label: Dimensions
content: 18.5 × 13.4 cm (7 5/16 × 5 1/4 in.)