Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Vertical rectangle. Design for a candlestick intended to be executed in gilded and green bronze and white and colored marble. Base supported by two lying golden griffons. Upon a half-circular base with reliefs representing antique scenes 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.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819
- Date
- 1810
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Medium
- Pen and ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 46.5 × 27.1 cm (18 5/16 × 10 11/16 in.)
- Type
- lighting
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
