Design for an Earring
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Jewelry design for an earring. The scheme and the central part is similar to 1938-88-847, the disk and the drops having a different design, the diamonds inside and the frames seemingly being not connected with each other.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- late 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-783
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- jewelry
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, brush and gray, red watercolor, black chalk on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 11 × 8.9 cm (4 5/16 × 3 1/2 in.)
- made in
- probably Naples, South Italy, 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_1938-88-783
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq480330f43-47b1-4c6a-be3b-6126a412a9d5
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