Design for a Comb
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1810
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle. Design for the cresting of a hair comb intended to be executed in gilded metal with diamonds and a cameo. In the center, a circular cameo with the head of Bacchus, between two griffons. Nine tines sketched below.
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: 1938-88-699
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 brown ink, brush and yellow, brown, blue-gray wash on white wove paper, laid down
label: Dimensions
content: 9.6 × 14.9 cm (3 3/4 × 5 7/8 in.)