Drawing for a candelabrum
date: label: Date
content: 1780–90
name: label: Follower of
content: Jean-Louis Prieur the Younger, French, 1759 – 1795
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a marble and bronze candelabrum. On a marble pedestal with bronze swag decoration is mounted a sphinx, seated facing left in profile. On the head of the figure a basket of flowers form which springs a torch and a two branched candelabrum.
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: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1911-28-453
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Type
content: drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Ren and ink, brush and water color, pencil on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 17.8 x 11 cm (7 in. x 4 5/16 in.)