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Object name(s):
Design
Brief description:
A full scale perspective presentation drawing for a pair of sterling silver candlesticks in preliminary pencil, watercolour, bodycolour, chalk and kaolinite on thick grey paper.
Collection:
Victoria and Albert Museum
Associated concept:
Drawings
Associated concept:
Designs
Associated concept:
History of the V&A
Associated concept:
Metalwork
Associated concept:
Lighting
Associated concept:
Tableware & cutlery
Associated person:
Sir Roy Strong
Associated place:
Victoria and Albert Museum
Content - concept:
candlesticks
Credit line:
Commissioned for the Victoria and Albert Museum by Sir Roy Strong. Given by the Collection of Metalwork
Current reproduction location:
https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2015HY0703/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg
Location type:
Thumbnail
Dimension:
Height
Dimension measurement unit:
cm
Dimension value:
48.6
Dimension:
Width
Dimension measurement unit:
cm
Dimension value:
34.6
Inscription content:
'Design for a pair of Sterling silver Candlesticks Commissioned for the Victoria and Albert Museum by Sir Roy Strong.'
Inscription interpretation:
Inscribed
Inscription content:
'© Jocelyn Burton'
Inscription interpretation:
Signed in kaolinite
Material:
paper
Material:
graphite
Material:
watercolour
Material:
bodycolour
Material:
chalk
Material:
kaolinite
Object history note:
The pair of candlesticks in this design, commissioned by Sir Roy Strong for the Victoria and Albert Museum, were never executed.
Object name:
Design
Object number:
E.1973-1990
Object production date:
1983
Date - association:
designed
Date - earliest / single:
1983-01-01
Date - latest:
1983-12-31
Object production person:
Jocelyn Burton
Person's association:
maker
Object production place:
Great Britain
Place association:
designed
Physical description:
A full scale perspective presentation drawing for a pair of sterling silver candlesticks in preliminary pencil, watercolour, bodycolour, chalk and kaolinite on thick grey paper.
Reproduction number:
2015HY0703
Responsible department/section:
PDP
Technique:
drawing
Technique:
Preliminary pencil, watercolour, bodycolour, chalk and kaolinite on thick grey paper
Text reason:
Collections online record
User's reference:
Reference:
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1990

Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/9b3665da-ffd5-3762-b769-23ad8b9adc0c

Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/9b3665da-ffd5-3762-b769-23ad8b9adc0c, Victoria and Albert Museum, CC BY-NC

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