Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Jewelry design for a hair comb intended to be executed in gilded, partly engraved metal, silver and diamonds. In the cresting border, blossoms composed of a central red diamond framed by smaller white ones and connected with a leaf branch in the Gothic manner, and other floral motifs as grapes. Below, a silver and an engraved gold band. Twenty-five tines.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- ca. 1830
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-758
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- jewelry
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and ink, brush and gray, yellow, red watercolor on paper
- Dimensions
- 16.1 × 22.8 cm (6 5/16 in. × 9 in.)
- made in
- Italy
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1938-88-758
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4a81572a2-dae2-4db8-af94-a088a1e9a394
