Object Details
Designer
Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819
Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Vertical rectangle. Design for a vase clock intended to be executed in green and gilded bronze, and white and red marble. Two pairs of columns standing upon a base support an architrave, upon which two sphinxes are lying, supporting the clock; two urns stand at the outsides. Before the inner columns stand two Egyptian male figures, a circular altar in the center. Plan view below elevation, scale at bottom.
Credit Line
Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
Date
ca. 1800
Accession Number
1938-88-596
Restrictions & Rights
CC0
Type
timepieces & measuring devices
Object Name
Drawing
Type
Drawing
Medium
Pen and ink, brush and sepia wash, watercolor, graphite on paper
Dimensions
20.7 × 14.9 cm (8 1/8 × 5 7/8 in.)
made in
Rome, Italy
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Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Link to Original Record
Record ID
chndm_1938-88-596