Design for an Earring
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Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Jewelry design for an earring. Scheme is similar to 1938-88-842 but with a third leaf as filling the inside of the cornucopiae. The outsides of the frames of the disk and the drops have rows of balls. Bevelled corners.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- late 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-803
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- jewelry
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, brush and red, gray watercolor, silver on paper
- Dimensions
- 11.3 × 9.2 cm (4 7/16 × 3 5/8 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_1938-88-803
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4d6020b85-dfd1-44ee-a11b-101e17c8ffe5
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