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 has the shape of a spheric triangle, with a row of round diamonds as a frame. In the center, a diamond framed as a blossom. On every side a rinceau of a branch with leaves, pomegranates and other fruits. Below, a metal stripe with an engraved frieze of scallops. Twenty-seven tines.
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: 1938-88-765
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: 22.6 × 31.5 cm (8 7/8 × 12 3/8 in.)