Three Designs for Candlesticks
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Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Horizontal rectangle. Three designs for candlesticks, all supported by lion feet. At left, the bottom part of the shaft consists of acanthus scrolls, worked à jour, showing inside a standing escutcheon. A foliated, scalloped and fluted balustrade supporting the bowl with the socket from the top part. At center, the shafts consisting of seated griffins, worked à jour, connected by festoons and flanking a papal escutcheon. On them stands a base upon which the animals of the Evangelists support the sphere upon which are shown the allegorical figures of Justice or Strength, Faith, and Love. A calyx rises over them, supporting the bowl and socket. At right, a calyx supports a baluster, the bottom part of which is covered by a calyx, from which vine stem rises. The top is similar to other designs. A scale at bottom. Two framing lines at bottom, partly cut off.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- 1803
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-625
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- lighting
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, watercolor, traces of graphite on off-white laid paper
- Dimensions
- 34.3 × 42.1 cm (13 1/2 × 16 9/16 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_1938-88-625
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq446261980-2421-4dcb-871c-faad12aae081
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