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. Upon a half circular base with a black fluted band, decorated with three gold lion masks, stands a tripod. Around two of the legs are wound respectively a vine and a snake--around the third leg at the front is a crossed caduceus and a club. At the rim of the tripod are three seated female figures of allegories. Above their heads stands upon a capital a basket with flowers, out of which is springing a basin with ram heads on the rim, upon which three sockets spring on long shafts at their feet. Rinceaux beside it. Burning candles at top.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- ca. 1800
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-598
- 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
- 20.1 × 11.6 cm (7 15/16 × 4 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_1938-88-598
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq46ed60911-e8de-4a8f-b988-604789f4f8c7
