Design for a Candlestick, Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819, Pen and ink, brush and sepia wash, yellow, gray, green watercolor, graphite on paper, Vertical rectangle. Design for a candlestick intended to be executed in gilded and green bronze, and white and green marble. At bottom, the lower part of a column supported by three lion feet forms the base. Upon it stands a base with a calyx, out of which spring four column shafts growing in width and bound together by two bands. On their top are springing from masks four branches with burning candles. Above, a bowl with flowers and a column

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