Design for a Candlestick
date: label: Date
content: early 19th 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 candlestick intended to be executed with green and gilded bronze, and white and colored marble. A round base supported by two golden turtles with a segment of a fluted column above. On the column stands a caryatid supporting a basket with flowers, from which two curling branches with candles are springing.
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: 1938-88-605
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 paper
label: Dimensions
content: 63.1 × 35.5 cm (24 13/16 in. × 14 in.)