Object Details
- Designer
- Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- 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.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- early 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-605
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- lighting
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and ink, brush and sepia wash, watercolor, graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 63.1 × 35.5 cm (24 13/16 in. × 14 in.)
- made in
- Rome, Italy
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1938-88-605
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq44a9a3da8-cb2c-442a-9ce2-6dbc7c94ffa1
