Design for a Gas Lamp and Candelabrum

Unknownca. 1855

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

This drawing depicts a candelabrum and gas lamp consisting of a tall-necked porcelain vase in a floral design. The vase is mounted on a gilt-bronze tri-footed base, with putti flanking a coat-of-arms surmounting a female mask. Twenty candle arms encircle the gas lamp.

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Title: Design for a Gas Lamp and Candelabrum
Creator: Unknown
Date Created: ca. 1855
Type: Drawing
Rights: Museum purchase from Pauline Riggs Noyes Fund
Medium: Brush and watercolor and gouache, pen and blue ink over graphite on tracing paper
Inscribed: Lower left: Candelabre porcel: de Chine et Bronze/ a 20 bougies et Lampe au milieu.Lower center: N: 66.Lower right: Chantieur 230.Stamped above: 83
Exhibitions: New York, NY - CHNDM, "House Proud: Nineteenth-Century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection," August 12, 2008-January 25, 2009.
Dimensions: 43.5 x 27.3 cm (17 1/8 x 10 3/4 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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