Design for a Necklace
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1785
name: label: Designer
content: Giovanni Sebastiano Meyandi, Italian, active 1762 - 1794
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Jewelry design for a necklace. A scroll of ribbon and a branch are interlaced, with blossoms in the shape of rosettes in the compartments. Such a rosette on top of a small stem is in the center. The pendant has the shape of an oval wreath composed of interlaced ribbons and branches, within a drop.
place: label: made in
content: Siena, Italy
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-88-751
objectType: label: Type
content: jewelry
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and ink, brush and gray watercolor on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 17.3 × 27.9 cm (6 13/16 in. × 11 in.)