. Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use. Plate 135. The Candelabrum Base. SUPPORTS. 221. The Candelabrum Shaft. Plate 136. 222 The Candelabrum Capital. — The Balauster. The Candelabrum Capital. (Plate 137.) The Capital of a Candelabrum has a plate or cup-like form,according as it is destined to receive a lamp, or a candle. The topsaf the Antique bronze Candelabra, as a rule, are profiled like theso-called Krater (figs. 1—5). The profiles, and ornamentation already given, may be re-garded as s
. Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use. Plate 135. The Candelabrum Base. SUPPORTS. 221. The Candelabrum Shaft. Plate 136. 222 The Candelabrum Capital. — The Balauster. The Candelabrum Capital. (Plate 137.) The Capital of a Candelabrum has a plate or cup-like form,according as it is destined to receive a lamp, or a candle. The topsaf the Antique bronze Candelabra, as a rule, are profiled like theso-called Krater (figs. 1—5). The profiles, and ornamentation already given, may be re-garded as standards. The insertion of real capitals, or of figures, asbearers (fig. 6) is rarer. The marble Candelabra of the Antiqueusually terminate in a plate or table (fig. 7); and this is also thecase with the Renascence Candelabra intended to receive were not placed in a cylindrical socket but stuck on a co-nical pricket. On the decoration of Candelabra the reader may compare theplates dealing with this subject in Division III, (Group of Utensils). Plate 137. The Candelabrum —6. Antique, Museum, Naples. 7. Roman. 8. Renascence, drawing in the Uffizi, Florence.
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