File:Drawing, Three Designs for Candlesticks, 1802 (CH 18547891).jpg

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English: Drawing, Three Designs for Candlesticks, 1802   (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, 1802
Description
English: Horizontal rectangle. Three designs for candlesticks. At left: the feet of the candlestick consist of rumps of birds. Within the base is the inscription: qui ci va / lo stemma / di chi li fa fare; the shaft consists of four parts. In the lowest one the column rises from a calyx. In the second are festoons. The third is scalloped; the fourth fluted. Upon the capital stands a bowl, from which the socket rises. Center: the pedestal of the candlestick consists of lateral leaf scrolls and a central support at which is written: qui ci va lo stemma; the lower part of the shaft is a vase, above which two calyces rise. The upper one supports similar motifs to the left one. At right, the base is decorated with festoons supported by masks. The shaft is a foliated column. That at left is marked with a cross in ink. Each of the candlesticks are numbered with the letters D, E, F from left to right.
Date 1802
date QS:P571,+1802-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium pen and ink, brush and yellow, red, gray watercolor, graphite on paper
Dimensions 35.5 × 43.7 cm (14 in. × 17 3/16 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q1129820
Current location
Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design
Accession number
1938-88-624
Credit line Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
Inscriptions Watermark: PM
Notes
  • Type: Drawing
  • Inscribed: Inscribed in pen and ink, lower right: Fecit anno 1802; in pen and ink, verso, within oblong: Largheza della Cartagloria compresa la / cornice; in pen and ink, verso, vertically: altezza della carta gloria a cornu evangelico; in pen and ink, verso, center: Vano dello tempio di mezzo / piantato della Cartagloria di mezzo la quale deve es [?[ ere divisa in due parti ad oggetto di non coprire il temppio di / mezzo / La altezza della Cartagloria grande deve corispondere / alle altezze di quelle picciole; in pen and ink, verso, left: Larghezza dell'altra Cartagloria di / Mezza La quale si divide in due parti; in pen and ink, verso, right: tutto il vano di un cartagloria, di mezzi / compresa La cornice; in pen and ink, verso, with a correction of the plan: avertire di repristare un poco pin / per lo scriba die vi trova / si piu / per lo scriba che vi trova / si piu piantato
  • Country: Italy
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