Design for a Candelabrum
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
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 candelabrum with three candles, the pedestal supported by crouching lions. Above it rises a part of the shaft of a fluted column from an acanthus calyx. A scalloped shaft is in the place of a capital. Two masks are fixed to it, each supporting with the mouth a branch of the candelabrum. Upon the shaft stands an acanthus calyx with another short piece of column. On top is a socket, with the lower part of a candle as they are on top of the branches. Below is a colored basis stripe. Framing line.
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: 1938-88-632
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 yellow, green-brown watercolor on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 16.9 × 9.6 cm (6 5/8 × 3 3/4 in.)