Design for Hilt and Guard of a Dress Sword
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1780–90
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a jeweled hilt and guard of a dress sword. Grip and guard of hilt are decorated with a pattern of lozenge shapes set with small diamonds. Similar pattern decorates knuckle-guard as well. At the top of the hilt is an urn-shaped pommel with button.
place: label: made in
content: probably Naples, South Italy, 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: 1938-88-871
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 black ink, brush and wash, gold paint, traces of graphite on off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 24.7 x 20.6 cm (9 3/4 x 8 1/8 in.)