Design for a Candlestick with Caryatids on a Pedestal supporting a Vase
Enea Vico Italian
Possibly after Anonymous, Italian, 16th century Italian
Not on view
Desisn for a candlestick characterized by the figures of caryatids supporting a vase, a motif inspired by the design for a salt cellar by Raphael. The caryatids are placed on top of a round pedestal decorated with bovine masks a garland and eagles. The stem rests on a broad round foot decorated with scrolls, acanthus leafs and three stacked friezes which alternate from convex to concave. From a series of designs for candle sticks in the Antique manner thought to have been made by an anonymous artist who published his designs through Antonio Salamanca (1552), and later Lafreri (ca. 1573). A second series exists by the renowned engraver Enea Vico, but it is unclear which was the first to be issued. While Bartsch gives the primacy of the designs to Vico, Fuhring has argued for a reverse order based on the relative poor quality of Vico's prints.
