Designs for Two Earrings
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1800
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Jewelry designs for two earrings. At left: the front of the ring at the earring's base decorated with a row of diamonds. The chain consists of three scrolls connected by two red diamonds. Below, connected by the same, a knotted ribbon with another red diamond in the center; hanging, a drop, red diamond, in a frame of brilliants. At right: similar ring, supporting both ends of a chain of a close row of diamonds. Both rings have two slopes.
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: 1938-88-854
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 red, gray watercolor on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 16.4 × 7.8 cm (6 7/16 × 3 1/16 in.)