Design for a Comb
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1830
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Jewelry design for a hair comb. The cresting border is formed by circles, connected by small ones; in the larger ones a central diamond is framed by smaller ones; in the smaller circles one diamond. In the band below two laurel branches are springing from a central stone. Below a strip engraved as in 1938-88-760.
place: label: made in
content: Italy
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1938-88-759
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, yellow watercolor on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 16.1 × 23.4 cm (6 5/16 × 9 3/16 in.)