Object Details
- Designer
- Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Vertical rectangle. Design for a vase clock intended to be executed in green and gilded bronze, and white and red marble. Two pairs of columns standing upon a base support an architrave, upon which two sphinxes are lying, supporting the clock; two urns stand at the outsides. Before the inner columns stand two Egyptian male figures, a circular altar in the center. Plan view below elevation, scale at bottom.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- ca. 1800
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-596
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- timepieces & measuring devices
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and ink, brush and sepia wash, watercolor, graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 20.7 × 14.9 cm (8 1/8 × 5 7/8 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_1938-88-596
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq46e5de8ed-ca42-4d6b-841e-9da78732567c
