Table with candlestick
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1795
name: label: Designer
content: Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The curved table is probably a console table. The legs are composed of three gaines with a lion foot and a female mask above, the body is fluted. They are connected below by boards, above by festoons. Above, the candlestick. The shaft is surrounded by eagles. Above is a burning oil lamp from which two branches spring in the shape of the neck and the head of a snake supporting with the mouth the burning candle. Usual background. Above, at left, part of a figure - 5 or 6, and 8.
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: 1938-88-2015
objectType: label: Type
content: furniture
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: 26 x 11.3 cm (10 1/4 x 4 7/16 in.)