Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Vertical rectangle. Design for a candlestick intended to be executed with green and gilded bronze, and white and colored marble. A round base supported by two golden turtles with a segment of a fluted column above. On the column stands a caryatid supporting a basket with flowers, from which two curling branches with candles are springing.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819
- Date
- early 19th century
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Medium
- Pen and ink, brush and sepia wash, watercolor, graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 63.1 × 35.5 cm (24 13/16 in. × 14 in.)
- Type
- lighting
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
