File:Drawing, Design for a Candelabrum, late 18th century (CH 18548099).jpg

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English: Drawing, Design for a Candelabrum, late 18th century   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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English: Drawing, Design for a Candelabrum, late 18th century
Description
English: Vertical rectangle. Design for a candelabrum with three candles, the pedestal supported by crouching lions. Above it rises a part of the shaft of a fluted column from an acanthus calyx. A scalloped shaft is in the place of a capital. Two masks are fixed to it, each supporting with the mouth a branch of the candelabrum. Upon the shaft stands an acanthus calyx with another short piece of column. On top is a socket, with the lower part of a candle as they are on top of the branches. Below is a colored basis stripe. Framing line.
Date late 18th century
Medium pen and ink, brush and yellow, green-brown watercolor on paper
Dimensions 16.9 × 9.6 cm (6 5/8 × 3 3/4 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q1129820
Current location
Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design
Accession number
1938-88-632
Credit line Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
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  • Type: Drawing
  • Inscribed: Inscribed in pen and ink, upper right: 6 [corrected from 5]
  • Country: Italy
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