Design for an Earring
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1755
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 an earring. The upper part of a left ear is outlined. A brilliant gem is in the center between a rocaille below and a fan-like structure above. Five pending drops of different sizes. Beveled corners.
place: label: made in
content: possibly Siena, 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: 1938-88-873
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 green, brown watercolor on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 10.7 × 5 cm (4 3/16 × 1 15/16 in.)