Design for an Earring
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Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Jewelry design for an earring. The disk above and the three drops below are framed by leaves in the shape of palmettes. In the center, a knotted ribbon with three flower blossoms and leaves. Beveled corners.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- ca. 1775
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-894
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- jewelry
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, brush and sepia wash, silver paint on paper
- Dimensions
- 9 × 7.2 cm (3 9/16 × 2 13/16 in.)
- made in
- probably Naples, 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_1938-88-894
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4bc307f54-243c-424c-9457-44864a69bdb0
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