Design for a Brooch
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Jewelry design for a brooch. Design takes shape of a knot, the ribbons of which are patterned with blossoms and spheres, accented by a central rosette form, à jour. The inside has three stripes, the central being a band, between two with alternating blossoms and disks. Beveled corners.
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: 1938-88-858
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 gray watercolor on off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 11.7 × 15.3 cm (4 5/8 × 6 in.)