Design for a Parure with Rubies and Pearls
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Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Earring, pendant necklace, and bracelet arranged vertically on page. Necklace composed of ruby-colored spheres which are either encircled by smaller spheres in white or linked to a suspended pear-shaped ruby surrounded by small pearls. For bracelet, a string of round rubies encircled by small white pearls. Clasp at right. Earring: A pear-shape red ruby hangs from red sphere at top of page.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase in memory of Mary Hearn Greims
- Possibly 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1940-86-591
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- jewelry
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, brush and red gouache, gold paint, graphite on off-white wove paper, laid down
- Dimensions
- 20.8 x 31.2 cm (8 3/16 x 12 5/16 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_1940-86-591
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4dfb05082-9718-4393-9e7d-71e04002a5ce
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