File:Drawing, Three Designs for Candlesticks, 1803 (CH 18547917).jpg

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English: Drawing, Three Designs for Candlesticks, 1803   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Title
English: Drawing, Three Designs for Candlesticks, 1803
Description
English: Horizontal rectangle. Three designs for candlesticks, all supported by lion feet. At left, the bottom part of the shaft consists of acanthus scrolls, worked à jour, showing inside a standing escutcheon. A foliated, scalloped and fluted balustrade supporting the bowl with the socket from the top part. At center, the shafts consisting of seated griffins, worked à jour, connected by festoons and flanking a papal escutcheon. On them stands a base upon which the animals of the Evangelists support the sphere upon which are shown the allegorical figures of Justice or Strength, Faith, and Love. A calyx rises over them, supporting the bowl and socket. At right, a calyx supports a baluster, the bottom part of which is covered by a calyx, from which vine stem rises. The top is similar to other designs. A scale at bottom. Two framing lines at bottom, partly cut off.
Date 1803
date QS:P571,+1803-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, watercolor, traces of graphite on off-white laid paper
Dimensions 34.3 × 42.1 cm (13 1/2 × 16 9/16 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q1129820
Current location
Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design
Accession number
1938-88-625
Credit line Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
Notes
  • Type: Drawing
  • Inscribed: Inscribed in pen and ink, upper left: No 3 / Scudi 300; in pen and ink, upper center: No 4 / Scudi 600 / Tutto dorato sc 800; in pen and ink, upper right: No 5 / Scudi 300 [corrected over 250] / Tutto dorato sc 300; in pen and ink, in line with scale at bottom: Scala . . .3 di Palmi Romani; in pen and ink, bottom right: Anno 1803
  • Country: Italy
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