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Design for a Candlestick, Cup, and Vase

Jean-Charles Delafosse1770

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Objects to be executed in gold or silver. At left: candlestick showing mermaid holding a socket. Her entwined fish body forms the stand. Center: a cup with handles formed by snakes above lion masks, body decorated with acanthus leaf design. At right: a fluted vase decorated with drapery festoons and two masks.

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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