Design for a Candlestick
Object Details
- Designer
- Italian, Italian, possibly Roman
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Base of candlestick has a burning heart above a flame. The shaft is designed as a high decorative vase with knots and garlands at base and surrounding the body, ending in a baluster with an eight pointed star.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- ca. 1780
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-3207
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- lighting
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush and wash, gray wash, yellow watercolor, graphite on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 34.6 x 23.9 cm (13 5/8 x 9 7/16 in. )
- made in
- 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_1938-88-3207
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq45e8a5e73-71fc-405d-9307-0480f17d4024
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