Object Details
- Designer
- Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Vertical rectangle. Design for a candlestick intended to be executed in gilded and green bronze and white marble. Design for a candlestick with variations similar to 1938-88-593. Base supported by two lying golden griffons. Upon a half-circular base with decorations of garlands of trophies of vessels stands a column with the statue of Apollo on top. Two arms with burning candles are springing from ram heads, below the Ionic capital. A snake is wrapped around the column. Before the column stands a tripod, between two priestesses supporting with their erected outside arms cornucopias with a burning candle in each. At the bottom, the plan of the base.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- ca. 1800
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-597
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- lighting
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and ink, brush and sepia wash, watercolor, graphite on light blue paper
- Dimensions
- 18.5 × 13.4 cm (7 5/16 × 5 1/4 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_1938-88-597
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq491c9d33a-c5e2-4808-bc11-40eb1119c47f
