Design for Brooch with Apollo
date: label: Date
content: 16th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Jewelry design for a brooch. An oval diamond is framed by an escutcheon, with one volute in the upper half, scrollwork in the lower half, with a ram's head below. From the sides are hanging two chains with three round diamonds each. Below, a larger one. Above, seated figure of Apollo reclining with a lyre.
place: label: made in
content: 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: 1938-88-781
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 sepia wash, gray watercolor on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 10.4 × 8.4 cm (4 1/8 × 3 5/16 in.)